(frenetic music)
(applause)
My talk,
about Afrofuturism and the African.
Afrofuturism is considered
what speculative fiction,
myths, legends, science fiction,
and the stories of that genre
are to African Americans,
Africa, Africa of the Diaspora,
and black people in general.
What (inaudible) refers it to is
what blackness looks like in the future,
real or imagined.
Now, the history of Afrofuturism
comes from America
and was first coined
by a man called Mark Dery
and when he started talking
about Afrofuturism
he talks about the idea of literature,
so the books
that Octavia Butler would write
and things like that,
but then it also moved
into a new region of music
so we would have people
like Sun Ra and George Clinton
but for me, especially Sun Ra because
he has a special place in my heart,
He believed that he came
from the planet Saturn
and came to earth to spread
the message of love and peace.
Like in his movie, "Space is the Place"
he introduces the idea of "alien"
to black people in America.