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Africanfuturist Socio‐Climatic Imaginaries and Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Necropolitics

Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 240-258, January 2022., 2022
Abstract Dominant and insurgent socio‐climatic imaginaries struggle for influence over how the future is envisioned. Africanfuturist imaginaries have huge potential to unsettle racialised and gendered climate narratives. In this article I use Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Who Fears Death in order to challenge mainstream climate imaginaries and to imagine new ...
Carl Death
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]

, 2019
Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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“Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation!”: Music Videos and the Construction of Cultural Memory

Open Cultural Studies, 2017
This paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013) as case studies. The medium’s idiosyncrasies create unique
Bertens Laura M. F.
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Afrocentricity as the Organizing Principle for African Renaissance. Interview with Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University (USA)

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2020
Professor Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University. Asante’s research has focused on the re-centering of African thinking and African people in narratives of historical experiences that provide ...
Aaron X. Smith
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The Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism: Women and Other Critters in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi

Le Simplegadi, 2021
The recent efflorescence of fictional writings and artistic works examined under the rubrics of Blue Humanities (Mentz 2009), Critical Ocean Studies (DeLoughrey 2019), Hydro-Criticism (Winkiel 2019), or New Thalassology (Horden and Purcell 2006), testify
Daniela Fargione
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BOOK REVIEW: Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Fafnir, 2023
Lavender, Isiah, III. Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement. Ohio State UP, 2019. ISBN 978-0814255568.
Reba K. Dickson
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Black Women and the Pandemic Imagination: Pedagogy as a Rehearsal of Hope During Covid-19

Radical Teacher, 2022
This article discusses Brown’s use of Afrofuturism and critical pedagogy in her creation of the class, Black Women and the Pandemic Imagination (BWPI), which she taught in Spring 2021 at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kimberly Nichele Brown
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Afrofuturism as Design

, 2021
El artículo tiene como objetivo posicionar el afrofuturismo como un proyecto de design. Para ello, parte de un tejido de significados del design— propuesto por Cardoso, Papanek y Flusser— para contextualizar la actividad desde la amplitud inherente de su concepto, aliado a las definiciones de Afrofuturismo propuestas por Yaszek y Dery, que lo ...
Nunes, Cynthia Maria Rocha, Arantes, Priscila Almeida Cunha   +1 more
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BOOK REVIEW: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Fafnir, 2022
Lavender, Isiah III, and Lisa Yaszek, editors. Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Ohio State UP, 2020. ISBN 978-0814255964.
David Callahan
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Time in Afrofuturism, Classroom Time, and Carceral Time

Radical Teacher, 2022
This essay describes teaching Afrofuturism in a small liberal arts college and a state prison, during the time of the pandemic. Questions about time are central to Afrofuturist literature, art, and scholarship, and the altered timeframes of both COVID ...
Wendy W. Walters
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