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My talk,

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about Afrofuturism and the African.

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Afrofuturism is considered[br]what speculative fiction,

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myths, legends, science fiction,

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and the stories of that genre[br]are to African Americans,

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Africa, Africa of the Diaspora,[br]and black people in general.

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What (inaudible) refers it to is[br]what blackness looks like in the future,

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real or imagined.

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Now, the history of Afrofuturism[br]comes from America

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and was first coined[br]by a man called Mark Dery

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and when he started talking[br]about Afrofuturism

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he talks about the idea of literature,

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so the books[br]that Octavia Butler would write

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and things like that,

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but then it also moved[br]into a new region of music

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so we would have people[br]like Sun Ra and George Clinton

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but for me, especially Sun Ra because[br]he has a special place in my heart,

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He believed that he came[br]from the planet Saturn

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and came to earth to spread[br]the message of love and peace.

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Like in his movie, "Space is the Place"

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he introduces the idea of "alien"

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to black people in America.