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Alt 43: Afrifuturism

Alt 43: Afrifuturism

Ernest Cole, Ernest
Emenyonu, Ernest N.
Eke, Kola

Hardcover

Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover), Book 43

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1847014186
ISBN13: 9781847014184
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings in the emerging genre of Afrifuturism.

In contrast to Afrofuturism, which explores the intersection of primarily Diaspora Black culture with Western technology and hence perpetuates, to some extent, a colonial mindset, Afrifuturism looks to imagine an African and global Black future beyond industrial, technological and capitalist terms, one rooted in African cosmologies and history. Contributions in this issue seek to interrogate, contest, and reformulate some aspects of its convention by suggesting alternate frames, shifts in focus, changing perspectives of history and points of view, new narrative methods, new epistemological structures, thematic concepts and pedagogical praxis that offer new ways of defining the African and for imagining alternative futures for African peoples. Together, they shed further light on the complexities of Afrifuturism and offers alternative models for thinking about the past and the future of African people, with important implications for diaspora and postcolonial literature.

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