Zakiyyah Haffejee is a South African architect, researcher, and educator whose work critically examines the politics of space, identity, and power within African and diasporic contexts. Her research engages mapping as a narrative practice, textiles as spatial devices, and the body as a site of architecture, foregrounding questions of extraction, displacement, and cultural memory. Through these lenses, her work explores how spatial practices both reflect and contest historical and contemporary forms of inequality. Her approach is deeply interdisciplinary, bridging architectural research, critical theory, and pedagogy, and is informed by a commitment to reclaiming African spatial narratives and advancing decolonial perspectives within architecture and urbanism. At the Pan-African Biennale, Zakiyyah serves as Curatorial Lead in Spatial Justice and Territorial Politics, where she contributes to shaping curatorial frameworks that interrogate land, borders, and power relations across the continent. Through her work, she advances critical dialogues on space and justice, positioning architecture as a site of resistance, memory, and transformation.