The paper focuses on the development of our intellectual partnership as an example of the emerging, decolonial community of young African anthropologists (with transnational ties) that we are building. We discuss the creative strategies that are required to foster such communities and are interested in exploring the curiosities that emerge during a Creative’s journey through the Humanities in academia. We will reflect on our commitments to our individual journeys alongside the development of our intellectual partnership through two key curiosities that we have been engaging with over the years thus far. Firstly, we posit that radical practices of care are necessary for anthropologists of colour, specifically women of colour, in the Humanities. We unpack the radical care practices that we have engaged in our own intellectual partnership (from attentive mentoring to compassionate leadership). Through deeply engaging with our scholarly practice, we recognise the Self in the Other. This allows us to interweave our individual artistic practices and areas of interest to create an intellectual partnership that enables us to build communities of care in anthropology, particularly among young scholars. Secondly, we show that through embracing iterative cycles of theory-to-practice, we are able to have a meaningful impact in academia and break oppressive cycles that abound in historically white universities. We speak to the uncomfortability that comes with the territory (studying, teaching, mentoring, and leading in an historically white university) and having to be creative in the strategies we employ to ensure our ‘seat at the table’ despite the inertia of forces that work to push scholars like ourselves out of the institution. Thus, through embracing these creative strategies, we have formed an intellectual partnership. We continue to expand on this by building communities of young anthropologists in a meaningful and sustainable way.