(Article by John-Baptiste Oduor posted on artreview.com. Photo credit: Kara Walker)
“The body of work loosely contained under the label of Afrofuturism exists within two radically distinct but conceptually overlapping timelines. The first encompasses the history of the United States but focuses its attention on slavery and its aftermath, traced all the way into the current century – the longue durée…”
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(Article by editor on africa.com. Photo credit: editor)
“With a digital media platform that focuses on World Shapers, Afro-Futurism, Cultural Bridge Builders, and much more for 2022. Can you imagine the modern world without the influences of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell, Lewis Hamilton, or Sade? When we look at science and inventions, the contributions by people of color go wide and far from developing mathematics to architecture and much more especially from the continent of Africa…”
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(Article by Amanda Ong on southseattleemerald.com. Photo credit:
“The Eightfold Path is an anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of the Buddha. It traverses media, stories, cultures, and ideas. Johnson and coauthor Steven Barnes are both practicing Buddhists and have incorporated their beliefs into this series of Buddhist stories that intersect with science fiction and Afrofuturism…”
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(Article by Alyssa Shotwell on themarysue.com. Photo Credit: Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios 2018)
“Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism. Despite their similar origins and many cultural ties, these two genres within science fiction and speculative fiction tell very different stories…”
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(Article by Zaza Hialethwa on news24.com. Photo credit: multiChoice)
“Set 11,000 years ago, Blood Psalms is an African epic that follows a teenage princess, Zazi, as she rises to power. After taking the throne and now queen, Zazi is tasked with battling a world-ending prophecy that sees her navigating ancient curses, long-standing tribal vendettas and the wrath of the gods…”
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(Article by Lina Nasr El Hag Ali on dailymaverick.co.za.)
“The work of imagining alternate futures is also about imagining alternate pasts. Pasts in which Black and Indigenous people feature as more than just passive observers. It is about rewriting the narrative on agency and action and it is deeply political. Pay attention to the visions for the future put forward in today’s world by politicians, intellectuals and scientists: The development of technologies to sustain human life on other planets; new digital realities; the altering of human DNA. Who is this for?”
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(Article by William Jaeger posted on timesunion.com. Artwork: Alisa Sikelianos-Carter’s “Afronauts and Ancestors,” 2017. Photo: William Jaeger)
“Thank goodness for one-person shows. Even a fairly small affair like “In the Eye of Belonging” at Union College’s Mandeville Gallery has enough depth to get to what matters in the several different directions Alisa Sikelianos-Carter takes us. This is an artist whose mixed-media paintings have both visual panache and far-reaching content, creating what she calls a ‘mythology that is centered on Black resistance.'”
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(Article by Tina Charisma on graziadaily.co.uk.)
The Afrofuturist movement imagines an optimistic future for Black people. Tina Charisma explains why looking backwards is no longer enough… reclaiming Black history has come to involve the revival of Afrofuturism, where looking back isn’t enough. Instead, we can look forward into a future that exists beyond black trauma. Black stories do not always have to revolve around pain. Instead, culture and notions of Blackness can be redefined for the future.”
Source: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/afrofuturism/
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(Article by Arabia Parkey on dailyiowan.com. Photo credit: Jeff Sigmund)
“Public Space One announced its recent purchase of the historic Close House as the new home of the Media Arts Co-op, the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, and space for other nonprofit and art collective initiatives.”
Source: https://bit.ly/3CyGMbQ
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(Article by libbymaynard in youthkiawaaz.com. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. Serengeti Cyborg by Fanuel Leul)
“Afrofuturism, in some cases described as African American hairdo society, is a multi-dimensional cultural aesthetic, approach as well as scientific research of black history that examines the junctions of black diaspora culture and modern technologies. It was created in the mid-1990s by Afrofuturist thinker Mark Dery and explored in the later 1990s using conversations led by Alondra Nelson to mark the beginning of its rebirth. The “New Black Sensation” looked to link the void in between historically true and also regarded representational representations of black hairdos.”
Source: https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2021/10/some-facts-on-afrofuturism/
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