Afrofuturism
Installation by Alisha B. Wormsley, Detroit, Michigan, 2019
Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future-might, for want of a better term, be called "Afrofuturism." The notion of Afrofuturism gives rise to a troubling antimony: Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?
-- Mark Dery on "Afrofuturism"
in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (1994), pg. 180
View the full-text essay: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822396765-010
Mothership Mixtape
A curated Spotify playlist of Afrofuturistic songs from past and present to transport you to another realm
Or, click here check out the YouTube version.
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| Tomi Adeyemi Nigerian-American, b. 1993 |
Octavia Butler American, b. 1947 |
Toni Cade Bambara American, b. 1939 |
Ta-Nehisi Coates American, b. 1975 |
| Martin Delany American, b. 1812 |
Samuel R. Delany American, b. 1942 |
W.E.B. DuBois American, b. 1868 |
Tananarive Due American, b. 1966 |
| Kodwo Eshun Ghanian, b. 1967 |
Pauline Hopkins |
Nalo Hopkinson Jamaican, b. 1960 |
Kelvin Christopher James Trinidadian-American, b. 1972 |
| N.K. Jemisin America, b. 1972 |
Walter Mosley American, b. 1952 |
Nnedi Okorafor Nigerian-American, b. 1974 |
Ben Okri |
| Ishmael Reed American, 1938 |
Nisi Shawl American |
Rivers Solomon American, b. 1989 |
Colson Whitehead American, b. 1969 |
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Haitian & Puerto Rican-American, 1960
Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan American, b. 1972
Ellen Gallagher
American, b. 1965
Robert Pruitt
American, b. 1975
Kaylan Michel (aka Lost in the Island)
Unknown
Cyrus Karibu
Kenyan, b. 1984
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