Finally, to step into tomorrow is to innovate with lineage as ballast. Afrofuturist visions—from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) to the ancestral plane in Black Panther (2018)—depict futures sustained by remembered wisdom. In civic life, this looks like policy anchored in historical repair; in entrepreneurship, it means designing for communities one’s forebears built and sustained. Thus, the armor is not only defensive; it is catalytic, enabling courageous experiments. Carried forward, ancestral resilience turns the unknown from a threat into a horizon. [...]
