Afrofuturism emerged in the 1970s/80s as a way to express the African diaspora’s potential and present concerns. It used speculative technology, married to deeply rooted traditions, culture and aesthetics, to imagine a future founded in African ambition.
It appears in the novels of Octavia Butler, the vivid canvases of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the music of Missy Elliott, but its most famous iteration is Marvel’s Black Panther. The 2018 blockbuster featured the late Chadwick Boseman as the leader of a technologically advanced fictional African nation named Wakanda, a pan-African utopia complete with holograms, flying cars and citizens coordinating jade-green plate lips with exquisitely tailored three-piece suits. Continue reading...
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