Afrofuturism

Host Oliver Brackenbury examines the evolution of Afrofuturism in speculative fiction with writer and educator Quentin VerCetty Lindsay.

 

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

• BSAM

• Quentin VerCetty

• “Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement” by Isiah Lavender III

• “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler

• “Black to the Future” essay by Mark Dery

• Samuel R. Delaney

• “The Famished Road” by Ben Okri

• Sun Ra

• June Jordan

• Nnedi Okorafor

• Nollywood

• “Brown Girl Begins” Dir by Sharon Lewis, based on the book “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Nalo Hopkins.

• “Kindred” by Octavia Butler

• See You Yesterday

• N.K. Jemisen

• “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James

• The Last Angel of History

• Crumbs

• “Dirty Computer” & “Archandroid” by Janelle Monae

• Sophia Stewart

• Black Kirby

• Umbrella Academy

• John Jenning's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower

• “How Long 'til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemisen

• “Cosmic Underground: Northside” by Quentin Vercetty

• “The Comet” by W.E.B. Dubois, and his essay on double consciousness.