Afrofuturism

A collection of conversations about Afrofuturism, curated and edited by Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK

Dreaming Up Inventions for an Afrofuturist World

Three magical tools necessary for both liberation and laughter.
Travis Alabanza
4 min read

An Afrofuturist Comic

An illustrated interview with Ikem Nzeribe, in which electric cats roam our cities and Miles Davis albums play on repeat
Charlotte M. L. Bailey
24 sec read

Afrofuturism and Outsider Tech

Afrofuturists, like hackers, get their strength from working and innovating outside traditional institutions.
Florence Okoye
4 min read

Giving Girls the Power to Use Technology

An interview with Achievers Ghana.
Florence Okoye
8 min read

Sculpting Space for Afro-Futurism as a Methodology of Liberation

An interview with D. Denenge Akpem.
Florence Okoye
12 min read

Black Culture Applied to Technology

An interview with Ian Forrester about Afrofuturism.
Florence Okoye
7 min read

From IVF to Designer Babies, Technology Is Not Colorblind

How Afrofuturism can help create a more equal world for black bodies of the future.
Princess Ojiaku
7 min read

Realizing an Afrofuturist Africa

Technology companies across the continent are turning academic theory into practical products and services.
Florence Okoye
6 min read

The Healing Is in the Art

An interview with digital artist Tabita Rezaire.
Florence Okoye
7 min read

Warping the Mainframe With Digital Alchemy

An interview with Moya Bailey.
Florence Okoye
8 min read

A Black Female Engineer & Her Afrofuturist City

To change the world, build it differently.
Natalie-Claire Luwisha
5 min read

Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Art Movement

An excerpt is from “The Black Speculative Art Manifesto.”
Reynaldo Anderson
7 min read

Space is the Place: A Crash Course in the Sounds of Afrofuturism

Where the social, political, and technological meet in music.
Florence Okoye
3 min read

Time for an Afrodigitalist Manifesto?

An interview with Olu Niyi-Awosusi.
Florence Okoye
5 min read

The Startup Tackling Women’s Health in Uganda

HerHealth Uganda wants to give rural women control over their own healthcare.
Florence Okoye
4 min read

An Afrofuturist Reading List

A crash course in the critical theory, art, literature, music, and more of the movement.
How We Get To Next
2 min read

There Are Black People in the Future

If we don’t write ourselves into the future, we get written out of tomorrow as well.
Florence Okoye
5 min read