Host Oliver Brackenbury examines the evolution of Afrofuturism in speculative fiction with writer and educator Quentin VerCetty Lindsay.

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

BSAM

Quentin VerCetty

“Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement” by Isiah Lavender III

“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler

“Black to the Future” essay by Mark Dery

Samuel R. Delaney

“The Famished Road” by Ben Okri

Sun Ra

June Jordan

Nnedi Okorafor

Nollywood

“Brown Girl Begins” Dir by Sharon Lewis, based on the book “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Nalo Hopkins.

“Kindred” by Octavia Butler

See You Yesterday

N.K. Jemisen

“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James

The Last Angel of History

Crumbs

“Dirty Computer” & “Archandroid” by Janelle Monae

Sophia Stewart

Black Kirby

Umbrella Academy

John Jenning's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower

“How Long 'til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemisen

“Cosmic Underground: Northside” by Quentin Vercetty

“The Comet” by W.E.B. Dubois, and his essay on double consciousness.