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Entertainer and author Janelle Monáe performs during the 2019 Grammys flanked by android-like backup dancers. Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesThe new sci-fi musical “Neptune Frost,” set in a Rwandan village constructed with computer parts, tells the story of an intersex hacker and a coltan miner who lead an anarchist uprising against their oppressors. The film – lauded for its “Afrofuturist vision” – is only one of the more recent works to engage in the transformative speculation of Afrofuturism, a cul

The 18th edition of the New College Holiday Book Guide, recommendations of new and recent books that had an impact on the writers this year.

While the term was coined 28 years ago, it can pertain to multiple kinds of work created by Black people across history.

Starting in 1998, scholars, artists and activists from various fields refined the meaning of the term.

Chambliss defines Afrofuturism as an intersection of speculation and liberation that’s inspired by the concerns of people of African descent.