Do you think Afrofuturism will become as popular as other Genres of Scifi?

[Jaguar93]

Video popped up in my algorithm while working out. Long video but a good listen homie was spitting. Kinda fits the theme of this thread.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Not unless it gets infused with LGTBQism

I think you and @Phitz are observing the overlapping of Afrofuturism and Afro Punk. No pun intended.

What is Afrofuturism in simple terms?


Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry.


What is the meaning of AFROPUNK?


In essence, Afropunk is a celebration of the alternative arts scene that has blossomed from the underground culture of the African diaspora.

AFROPUNK abides by the tenets: NO SEXISM, NO RACISM, NO ABLEISM, NO AGEISM, NO HOMOPHOBIA, NO FATPHOBIA, NO TRANSPHOBIA, NO HATEFULNESS. We strive to create a safe space for all behind, on, and in front of the stage.

Afropunk is not just for one kind of people, it is inclusive of all communities who are pro black." artist Harold Waight with his partner Walter Kemp

"Wearing our movements on our chest": Radical expressions of Blackness define Afropunk style

Afropunk has evolved over the last decade, but the space for unapologetically Black expression that it creates and cultivates, has remained constant.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Neuromancer]

I doubt it but I will continue to support the genre

Same. I'm in the afrofuturism community. I think younger black kids like sci-fi ECT but don't really know about Black created speculative fiction due to either it having less marketing behind it or being more focused on things from big companies and Japan.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I look forward to an afro futurism that is freed from the western concepts of the "future." Meaning chrome, computers, space program type stuff. If that is afrofuturism, deep space nine turned the black man that saved the universe into a God. Beautiful!

It's weird but perfectly in line that the "best" representation of afrofuturism was black panther/DS9, that was informed by our thought but wasn't our thinking.

My thoughts on this are loose and I apologize for their obscurity.

However, it is also the beauty of the genre that it can be multivariate and multifaceted. And these "space program afrofuturism" concepts should continue because it is most evocative of the concept. Sun ra, kwk...

I'd like to see a concept of "afrofuturism" that was centered around why the Dogon came to Earth from Sirius A/B. Ficitonalizing and figuring that out would (tapping into Dark Matter-Odù/Nun), imo, be instrumental to actually developing an future for black life on this planet.

Many of our traditional cosmologies demonstrate completely different reincarnation schemes and this also should be explored within an "afrofuturism" that is freed from the implied imperialism of space programs.

Being able to show over several generations, several "spirito-genetic" bloodlines taking us from this reality into a reality that regenerates the earth and creates an abundance of life would be massively inspirational. This is the vision within wakanda that I believe people want, yearn to see. This is what people homage when they cross their arms. My existence makes a future possible because I am a product of the past. Even showing this through slavery would be helpful towards building up the concept.

 

[Phitz]

Scifi from a black perspective.

I hear you, but now everything I see connected to it is represented by the feminine, which seems the direction an agenda wants to take it. That will be a bad ending for it

 

[Phitz]

..and another thing, it's like people stick the tern Afro/Afrobeat in front of something and run with it

I'm seeing AfroBEAT restaurant ideas, Afro travel, Afro vacation, Afrobeat designs, etc.

Somebody make it stop...it's killing creativity

 

[Phitz]

Black Panther 1 was the best example of Afrofuturism. The highlight of that film was mainly because of Chadwick Boseman. Losing him was a massive blow to the franchise and Afrofuturism in general. What also made Black Panther stand out was it promoted science and technology to the black youth.

To those that are unfamiliar with the genre, Afrofuturism is the cultural movement that integrates the progression of technology with the evolving African diaspora

As long as it doesn't get hijacked with an agenda and has a consistent script, it has potential.

I disagree, unless your defining a whole genre of entertainment through one person.

Should be an entire apparatus(sp?) that's irrespective of an individual

Too many black people have a messianic complex that's cancerous to their progress

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Do You think that the first black panther movie kinda shut down that line of thinking? It was a majority black cast in an afro futuristic sci fi superhero movie and it was very successful.

Possibly. My thing is BP is a part of a universe of one of the most successful movie brands in history and it came out during the peak of the comic book movie hype. So it very well could just be an anaomly with how huge it was. Hopefully I'm wrong though.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Not unless it gets infused with LGTBQism

What about star trek

 

[WIA20XX]

I do not think it will.

Disney put out Kizazi Moto last year. And it just didn't catch on, even with Black (American) Nerds. Iwaju is more of the same.

 

[WIA20XX]

Watching Iwaju right now.

It's definitely got some interesting applications of technology as well as some presumably internal Nigerian class, politics and culture.

 

[Diunx]

Always found it kinda racist tbh, like why are they still using lances, animal prints, divided by tribes and shyt in wakanda?
It pretty much drive the stereotype of African nations still being primitive to a certain extent.

 

[Uitomy]

Personally I’d like to see more shows based on African and indigenous American stories (some with ancient yet better tech than now vibe like Atlantis) actually Atlantis was really the last movie I ever saw that touched on ancient black civilization (ain’t that a bytch too, we always talk about representation but they really made the people melenated and hardly any black people watch or fondly remember that movie, but then again, I guess it’s cause of the swirling)

Wouldn’t mind seeing a fantasy drama on king Solomon or nimrod

 

[CopiousX]

I hear you, but now everything I see connected to it is represented by the feminine, which seems the direction an agenda wants to take it. That will be a bad ending for it

i think this is more of a diversity quota for the studios. It’s not really related to the concept of afrofuturism itself. It’s similar to how white people find it extremely efficient to bush a black man (sometimes even a black woman) for a black , queer, fat person in the workplace, in schools, or in media. Even better if this magical diversity superstar is an immigrant



And it’s not just us who lose out on these Hollywood quotas. Mexicans didn’t get a straight male like blue beetle from Disney, but instead got queer , female “America Chavez” cause it’s a character that ticks a lot of diversity boxes. Same could be said for Asians getting a queer Chinese woman in everything , everywhere , all at once.



You gotta see it from the studio perspective. That feminine, black, often gay character is saving them from making 3 separate movies

 

[CopiousX]

Personally I’d like to see more shows based on African and indigenous American stories (some with ancient yet better tech than now vibe like Atlantis) actually Atlantis was really the last movie I ever saw that touched on ancient black civilization (ain’t that a bytch too, we always talk about representation but they really made the people melenated and hardly any black people watch or fondly remember that movie, but then again, I guess it’s cause of the swirling)

Wouldn’t mind seeing a fantasy drama on king Solomon or nimrod

Which are you referring to? Stargate Atlantis or that animated movie from Disney?