What our science fiction says about us

Afrofuturism reaches back to when W E B Du Bois wrote his 1920 short story The Comet, in which the entire human population is killed, except for a black man and a white woman. The best-known example of Afrofuturism is 2018 superhero movie Black Panther, depicting Wakanda, a non-colonised African country that has been able to develop on its own terms, and which owns the world’s most powerful resource: Vibranium. This background provides the canvas on which a futurist, black so...
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Different visions of the future are appearing around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what they reveal about each region – and how imagining alternative realities can be subversive.

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