"I was writing this music that was really inspired by science fiction and afrofuturism," she told BBC Radio 1 in March. "Telling these stories through the lens of a young black woman and speaking ...

Futuristic worlds are often shaped by Western visions of humankind’s destiny. Afrofuturism offers an alternative that emphasizes how entrenched mainstream science fiction genre has become. This ...

Reynaldo Anderson, and Charles E. Jones, eds. Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2015. v + 222 pp. $85 hc. André M. Carrington. Speculative Blackness: The Future of ...

Kilgore suggests that, in a larger sense, “Afrofuturism emerges from and is in conversation with the generic traditions of science fiction,” and he argues that examining science fiction more broadly ...

Butler wrote her science fiction novel ‘The Parable of the ... These fascinating Afrofuturism novels from authors like Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead are a great way to discover more ...

Afrofuturism is about building fictional worlds with accurate representation. In the movie Black Panther, for example, the story represents Black and African cultures in a science fiction setting.

“Afrofuturism” is a term coined in the 1990s by American cultural critic Mark Dery. Dery used the label to describe ...