Recognizing the long history of claims by several generations of African-Canadians and the urgency of dealing with anti-Black racism, we are proposing three focuses of action for an emancipating epistemological process that will inform the design and execution of qualitative studies. We based ourselves on the corpus of critical researchers to suggest the importance of: 1) mobilizing the corpus of Black intellectuals and socio-critical theories when designing a research project; 2) practicing reflexivity in the design of a research project right up to distribution of the results; 3) recognizing that it is appropriate to integrate the plurality of project knowledges belonging to Black communities. We present these three focuses of action in full awareness that they do not constitute an exhaustive list. Rather, by anchoring this epistemological process in principles of decolonization, Afro-centricity, antiracism, feminism and intersectionality, we will consolidate the research and its emancipatory and transformative goals by, for and with Afrodescendant populations.