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How can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, imagine possible futures? This is the question Mark Dery poses in his essay “Black to the Future.” He defines Afrofuturism¹ as speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth century technoculture.² Historically, Black people are wiped not only from past and present memory but the imagined futures many science fiction and fantasy authors

A paradox of African development is that while it is the richest landmass on earth, it is also the place where the majority of the poorest..