The Africanist Podcast

Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism


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Step into the imaginative realms of Africanfuturism in this insightful episode featuring Prof. Kimberly Cleveland of Georgia State University in conversation with Bukunmi Bifarin (Emory University). Centered around Prof. Cleveland’s groundbreaking monograph, Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds (Ohio University Press 2024), the discussion traverses speculative aesthetics, historical memory, and the creative force of African cultural expression.

Together, they delve into how African artists, writers, and thinkers envision futures rooted in Indigenous knowledges, spiritual continuities, and alternative temporalities—disrupting colonial frameworks and offering new ways of seeing and being. This episode is an invitation to dream through the lens of the continent and its diasporas.

Music: Ismaila Lo

Episode Host: Bukunmi Bifarin

Editor: Luccas Perez

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The Africanist PodcastBy Bamba Ndiaye, PhD

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