About Us

The world that our children inherit is being built today …and we are responsible for building it. Tabax Subë ("to build tomorrow" in Wolof) is designed to facilitate our doing so. Tabax Subë describes our place, our purpose, and our process.

Tabax Subë creates a venue for authentic, grassroots interaction among Africans from across the African Diaspora. Through Tabax Subë we can convene, discuss issues, devise interventions, and create a new tomorrow. Tabax Subë focuses on authentic exchange and creative interaction among experts of day-to-day life -- the ordinary people who are willing to do extraordinary things.

While attracting visitors from throughout the African Diaspora and promoting intra-diasporan development, Tabax Subë stimulates the local economy through direct job creation and enterprise development. Joint ventures and public/private partnerships involving professionals, technicians, tradesmen, craftspeople, from Senegal and North America are responsible for the Tabax Subë’s design and construction. All furnishings and fixtures are designed and installed by local artisans. Tabax Subë’s staff is predominantly Senegalese.

It is clear that multi-national corporations invigorate macro-level economic development. Such development, however, does not always reach the grassroots. Tabax Subë ’s focus, therefore, is on the micro-level. Wherever possible, linkages are developed to promote job creation and sustainable micro-enterprise. Tabax Subë is conceived as a catalyst for locally based economic development. Organic, “bottom-up” processes are central to the application of The Council of the Obsidian’s philosophy.

In addition to being a place to design a future, Tabax Subë is also a laboratory to practice and refine grassroots development techniques for subsequent replication. Tabax Subë seeks to demonstrate that it is possible to think globally and, simultaneously, act locally.