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Anna Zidanes is an Afro-Brazilian designer and museologist based in Montreal. Passionate about digital museology, she utilizes extended reality (VR, AR, and MR) technology to enhance decolonial biographical narratives through an Afrofuturist perspective, thereby revitalizing the stories of Black communities and their diasporas. In 2023, she launched her inaugural Afrofuturistic creation, the MAHVI (Afrofuturist Museum of Life Stories), providing an immersive science-fiction storytelling experience inspired by the Ifá – Yoruba ancestral divination system.