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Valedictory lecture: We are rooted but we flow

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This is the text of the valedictory lecture that Rosi Braidotti delivered in June 2022, to mark the retirement from her academic position at Utrecht University. It was conceived as a spoken text and written within the rhetorical tradition of valedictory speeches.
Rosi Braidotti
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Afrocentricity as the Organizing Principle for African Renaissance. Interview with Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University (USA)

open access: yesVestnik 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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Teaching Afrofuturisms as American Cultural Studies

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2022
Kodwo Eshun asserts that “Afrofuturism studies the appeals that black artists, musicians, critics, and writers have made to the future, in moments where any future was made difficult for them to imagine.” Afrofuturism allows African diasporic writers to
Makeba Lavan
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Wakanda: Opening the High School Classroom to Afrofuturism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Afrofuturism has a solid place in high school classrooms thanks to the current work of Ryan Coogler, but also to those who have been in this work for decades including the Mother of Afrofuturism herself, Octavia Butler, adrienne maree brown, dream ...
Mattern, Carrie M
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BOOK REVIEW: Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

open access: yesFafnir, 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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The Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism: Women and Other Critters in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi

open access: yesLe 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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Black Women and the Pandemic Imagination: Pedagogy as a Rehearsal of Hope During Covid-19

open access: yesRadical 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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Imagining a Better World: Black Futurity in Contemporary Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Originally coined in the 1990s, the term Afrofuturism has become a prominent part of popular culture and has helped to address the absence of Black people and cultures from speculations about the future.
Dyer-Johnson, Omara Samirah
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Grandmaster Flash, the Sound of Afrofuturism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Annotated Bibliography for Sonic Afrofuturism ...
Robinson, Stacey
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The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science fiction, fantasy and references to arcade games and comic books.
de Paor-Evans Adam
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