This paper delves into the complexities and multiplicities surrounding land in the Mpumalanga Lowveld, South Africa, aiming to transcend the dualistic divide and embrace a more inclusive understanding of land in this context. Departing from the prevailing modernist perspective, it explores the entanglements of geological, ecological, social, and political histories within the concept of land. Through an interdisciplinary lens spanning anthropology, philosophy, and environmental studies, it highlights the inadequacy of modernist dichotomies and proposes storytelling as a method to articulate the intricate relationships between humans, non-human entities, and the land itself. Drawing from the works of Anna Tsing, Mario Blaser, Isak Niehaus, Bruno Latour, and Francis Nyamnjoh the paper argues for a reconceptualisation of land within various social realities. Storytelling, as a means of realising imagination, disrupts the modernist reality by embracing uncertainty and instability. It collapses temporal boundaries to unveil land as transcending a fixed locality, challenging linear notions of time and space. This reveals an interconnectedness and ever-evolving incompleteness associated with land over the longue durée, thereby undermining modernity’s claim to singularity, universality, and completeness. By foregrounding storytelling as a means of challenging the hegemonic production of knowledge and acknowledging alternative modes of existence, the paper advocates for a more equitable and sustainable coexistence with the land and its inhabitants in the Mpumalanga Lowveld. Within this articulation conviviality emerges as a challenge to remain open-minded and open-ended in claims and expressions of histories and being. The paper calls for acknowledging how modernity conceals other modes of existence and advocates for a response-ability to address past injustices by reimagining ways, particularly in anthropology, of approaching knowledge otherwise.