DIVINER MIND, how organisations can learn from the indigenous science of uncertainty

253pp., illus., paperback, Odyssey Books, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781049221847

Sustainability consultant Nicola Robins invites readers to consider what Africa's Indigenous Knowledge Systems can teach modern organisations, and modernity itself, about navigating the uncertainty of disruption while bringing Earth's social, ecological and cultural systems into renewed balance.

"As always, Robins is prepared challenge mainstream thinking on sustainability by offering a timely and pragmatic movement towards restorative justice." Richard Calland, Director Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Africa

"As Robins beautifully reveals, control was always a mirage. Her call to 're-member' could not be wiser for this moment." John Fullerton, author of Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis

Nicola Robins is co-founder of Incite, a consultancy dedicated to sustainable and just transitions, and has worked with leaders and teams operating in emerging markets, primarily in Africa, for two decades. She is a graduate of the Yale School of the Environment, a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a visiting lecturer at the UCT Graduate School of Business. A diviner in the Vondo lineage of Southern Africa's Ngoma tradition, she blends traditional skills with modern processes.