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(frenetic music)

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(applause)

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My talk,

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about Afrofuturism and the African.

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Afrofuturism is considered
what speculative fiction,

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myths, legends, science fiction,

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and the stories of that genre
are to African Americans,

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Africa, Africa of the Diaspora,
and black people in general.

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

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real or imagined.

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Now, the history of Afrofuturism
comes from America

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and was first coined
by a man called Mark Dery

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and when he started talking
about Afrofuturism

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he talks about the idea of literature,

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so the books
that Octavia Butler would write

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and things like that,

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but then it also moved
into a new region of music

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so we would have people
like Sun Ra and George Clinton

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

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He believed that he came
from the planet Saturn

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and came to earth to spread
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.