Afro Folk Futurisms

Quotes, images, thoughts, uploads, and tools I'm using to help explore my dissertation topic that involves Afrofuturism, Gullah/Geechee culture, Black women/feminism, literature, cultural trauma, and historical grief.

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Science fiction has ancient roots in Africa. Why shouldn’t it also have a future there?

“As far as I know, science and Africa have never been separate," Wanuri Kahiu says.

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Center for the Future of Museums: The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time

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My Site

Feeding the community, engineering the progress of Black people worldwide, celebrating Yoruba African culture, traditions and heritage through practice, collaborations, education, philanthropy and...

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An Oral History of the West African Village That Has Been in South Carolina for Four Decades | VICE | United States

Oyotunji is an unlikely outpost of the Yoruba religion, a place where people can live lives devoted to worshipping their ancestors and honoring their culture.

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Lest We Forget: Remembering the Gullah Culture

"You didn’t learn your history. You lived it." Those are the words of Cornelia Bailey, 65, as she recalled the "buzzard lope," a ritual dance the Gullah or Geechee people practiced long ago. As quoted in a Smithsonian.com article, Bailey is one of the last in her community to remember the stories of how when a slave died in the fields, the others were not allowed to stop working and tend to the...

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N.K. Jemisin on Why—and How—to Create Diversity in Science Fiction (with tweets) · Charley_Locke

A Social Media Story storified by Charley Locke

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The future was already here: Detroit’s Afrofuturist enclaves

"This architecture cannot be subjected to any law of historical continuity. It must be new, just as our state of mind is new." – Antonio...

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#BlackSpecFic - A Rant (with tweets) · tinytempest

A slow-boiled response to Fireside Fiction's report on Anti-Blackness is Speculative Fiction

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Anderson, Reynaldo, and Charles E. Jones. Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness. London: Lexington Books, 2016, 240 pages

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This is a guest post by Matilde Marcolli, a mathematician and theoretical physicist, who also works on information theory and computational linguistics. She studied theoretical physics in Italy and…

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DIGITAL: Rankin Maps the Spread of Slavery in United States

A digital project by Bill Rankin visualizes the spread of slavery in the United States in maps. Rankin uses dots, black space (to render county/state lines nearly invisible), and color gradations t…

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Gullah -- THE story of virtually every African American...and should be a must-viewing for all ages and races.

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Afrofuturism & Spirituality In Our Film, 'Ori Inu: In Search Of Self'

'Ori Inu: In Search Of Self' co-creator and producer Emann Odufu reflects on Afrofuturism and spirituality in his new film.

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Posts about Kongo Cosmogram written by lisakyleclark

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Posts about bakongo cosmogram written by landofkam