ENGL 2200: English II (Prof. Khan)

This article from the Los Angeles Review of Books discusses the distinctions between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.

A brief video looks at the basic question behind Afrofuturism -- "Where is home for a person of African descent?"

Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in this essay and defined it as "speculative fiction that treats African American themes and addresses African American concerns in the context of the twentieth century technoculture—and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future."

Five short animated films that discuss the origins and characteristics of Afro-futurism (2:00 min each).

In this song, jazz musician Sun Ra laid the foundation of Afrofuturism by linking an African identity to a future in outer space (21 min).

A talk by Masi Mbewe, an Afrofuturist writer and activist from Zambia.

An appreciation of black artists and writers who have made an African cultural identity central to their work.