#afrofuturism — Public Fediverse posts

"star-bound ballads, weekend dance tracks and Afro-cosmic visions"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/odd-okoddo-palagoma-afrofuturism

Find Odd Okoddo in the Slow World Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist

#afrofuturism #music #alternative #independent #artist #kenya  

Labyrinth of hydroponic tiers, humming turbines, and warm hanging lanterns, the night market breathes life into the district.
You know a community takes sustainability seriously when the scaffolding outgrows the buildings.

#lovefromlondon #aiart #solarpunk #afrofuturism #environmentconcept

Peak afro futurism

https://youtu.be/7SXKHiPQPhk

@Sidoine

#music #afrofuturism #afrofuturismart

The Emissary (People of Nyame) by Dwayne E. Hackett

A centuries-old war captures the attention of an
alien behemoth in this thought-provoking
political sci-fi adventure
The post The Emissary (People of Nyame) by Dwayne E. Hackett appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/14/the-emissary-people-of-nyame-by-dwayne-e-hackett/

#bookreview #Afrofuturism #DwayneEHackett #Fantasy #indieauthor

Fantastic documentary here about Drexciya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3gDvo0rxPM

#ElectronicMusic #Electro #Detroit #AfroFuturism

I'm going to get back to work any minute now, but posting The Deep led me to play the Clipping album "Splendor & Misery" (2016) while I made and ate breakfast. Here's All Black, a sentient spaceship narrating the experience of an escaped human "cargo" in her decks.

[Click above to hear the song. If you want more info about it, read on.]

The album is not always an easy listen, but damn is it ever good. It's a whole-ass concept album: 15 tracks in 37 minutes. You get Daveed Diggs rapping like a motherfucking house on fire, fluently switching hip hop styles, flowing through feelings, characters, and themes until you (or I, anyway) forget that it's just one guy's voice and the timbre doesn't vary much. You get the beats and soundscapes of William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes behind and around every track. You get a few full-on gospel numbers sung beautifully by the group Take 6. All in 37 minutes.

The story is of an enslaved Black man (Cargo Number 2331), the sole human survivor of a mutiny/uprising on an interstellar slave ship. This ship is, of course, sentient--Clipping plays with #SciFi tropes like a child with a Lego set and a blowtorch--and it becomes sympathetic to his situation.

I don't know a ton about #Clipping. I know this album and one or two other songs. This one is full-speed-ahead #afrofuturism and I'm here for it. It's gorgeous, punchy, political as hell, and (for me, anyway) various kinds of emotional.

#music #rap #hiphop #clipping

Clipping - The Deep

About 3 people saw this when I posted it yesterday as part of #ThursdayFiveList, but this song... damn, this song hits hard. It's also a pretty great listen if you like brainy rap.

Based on a concept album by Sun Ra. An undersea society evolved from the children of enslaved mothers thrown overboard when pregnant during the Atlantic slave trade. The undersea society gets sick of our shit.

Lyrics below because why not?

Our mothers were pregnant African women thrown overboard while
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships. We were born
Breathing water as we did in the womb. We built our home on the
Sea floor, unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers until
Their world came to destroy ours. With cannons, they searched
For oil beneath our cities. Their greed and recklessness forced
Our uprising. Tonight, we remember

Y'all remember how deep it go
Started from the bottom
Y'all remember how deep it go
'Fore y'all had to come back, deep
Y'all remember when it used to be deep
So deep, so, so deep, ay
When y'all swim up out yo' mama while y'all mama was asleep
So deep, so, so deep, ay
And y'all remember when y'all had the dance floor lit, dark
No two-step, deep, y'all don't even sweat, deep
As deep as it gets
Dreaming dead asleep and keeping time
Y'all heartbeat, deep, y'all heartbeat, deep
And all the fishes had they eyes bugged out
Cause y'all dancing underwater and y'all don't get wet
And the dark smelled sweet and y'all tails touch reef
Y'all feed off the bottom, but now y'all remember
Y'all remember
Y'all remember
Pressure outside the vehicle: 832.2 bars

Y'all remember when the deep got hot when y'all move on up
How y'all used to argue 'bout the water getting warmer
Still y'all loved a little bit of light up in the deep
So deep, so, so deep, ay
Y'all remember saying how it couldn't be them two legs
Cause y'all came from two legs
And y'all mamas would've loved y'all if they could've breathed
But they wasn't ready for the deep
So deep, so, so deep, ay
Y'all remember when the first blast came
And the beat fell off and the dreams got woke
And the light bent bad and the fishes belly up
And them coral castles crumbled 'cause they wasn't quite enough
And conversation used to break, like the floor quake
Like the bleached bones and the fin friends fled from they home
But the blast wouldn't stop 'caused they wanted black gold
And them no-gills had to feel it 'cause they couldn't be told
Y'all remember
Y'all remember
Ocean salinity: 35 PSU. Water pH: 7.91

Y'all remember when the raging changed that no please, no calm seas
Let the water rise
So deep, so, so deep
Oil slick upon the sleeper was an awful thing to realize
If the two legs wanna wake the dead
They gon' have to bring more fire, y'all is closer to the earth
So deep and y'all was talking how to get up in they heads
And got them real inspired circumstances of the birth
Has got y'all feeling like an army, better yet a navy
And Dagon gave y'all the blessing now y'all going crazy
They live with green up on the surface but they ain't deep
That pistol shrimp could knock a two leg off his feet
Y'all perfecting the steam void to rip up they ships
They using sonar as second language, y'all fluent with it
And all the dreamers is woke now, but nightmares swim
But everybody hear that "bloop" know y'all coming for them
Y'all remember
Y'all remember
Surface water temperature: 308 Kelvin

Y'all remember when the call went out, ay
No deep, no more deep, sunshine
Y'all remember when the call went out, ay
No deep, no more deep, sunshine
Y'all remember feeling wind up on your skin
No deep, no more deep, sunshine
Y'all remember how it burned in the beginning
No deep, ride on 'em, ride on 'em, ride on 'em
Y'all remember seeing sun across the surface on the day that
Y'all first came up out the water, so, so deep
How the breaking of the surface showed the sky without a border
And the air is so much hotter, so, so deep
How the woke dreamer screamed and it rose tides
And the waves stretched up like a mountain high
And the no gills gasp and they closed eyes
And they pray to they gods and they ask why
And they all cry too 'cause y'all recognize mama in the faces
Of the ones that y'all were terrorized
They were sisters and brothers
They were the babies born up out the water
Not connected to each other
Not in knowledge of the one dropped
But they had to learn today
Y'all had one shot, let the sun burn today
Let them feel the dark even deeper today
Make a two leg a believer today
Let them know that they done woke a sleeper from a sleep
So deep
That y'all been dancin' without any feet, so, so deep
Here's the nerve that they struck with a blast
That they broke with a drill that they burnt with the gas
Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
Y'all remember, so deep, sunshine, ride on 'em
Y'all remember when y'all had to let 'em breathe
Ride on 'em, ay

Initiating tidal wave sequence Uniform Romeo 0-3-0

#music #rap #DaveedDiggs #Clipping #Afrofuturism

OMG OMG OMG I almost missed that the #ThursdayFiveList is #SciFiTunes

Clipping - The Deep

This one is my baby for this list today. IIRC this piece was insipired by a Sun Ra concept album imagining a world in which some of the thousands of unborn (and sometimes born) children of enslaved mothers thrown overboard by European slavers adapted to an undersea environment and build a technologically advanced society separate from the "two legs" on land. In this Clipping piece I recommend listening to Daveed Diggs' untouchable flow and the structure of the song. Also the end when the undersea culture decides it has had enough of us.

The B-52's - Planet Claire

".... BUT SHE ISN'T"

David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy

Laurie Anderson - Ramon

"And you, you're no one. And you, you're falling. And you, you're traveling. Traveling at the speed of light." I maintain the angels are more sci-fi than fantasy/religion in this.

Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song

#afrofuturism

AFROFUTURISM exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California / 2022 #afroFuturism #art #Oakland

No mater how famous or wealthy, this is what every Black person, and especially Black women and children, can expect from the healthcare system anywhere in the US.

A New Mexico jury awarded the family of Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols $13 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico.

An expert informed jury ruled the hospital provided substandard care, failed to properly diagnose a treatable heart condition, and then discharging her hours before her death in 2022.

News media are already attempting to softpedal the story. Don't let them!
#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Afrofuturism #SciFi #STEM #Women #BlackWomen #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #Uhura #NyotaUhura

Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure & Joao Guerra

OCCII, Thursday, June 4 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

SPACEIS THE PLACE:: “Moor Mother live at OCCII” Moor Mother w/ Aquiles Navarro & Olof Melander + James McClure / Joao Guerra Duo

Surprise gig! Moor Mother plays live at OCCII (Amsterdam), backed up by her musical soulmates Aquiles Navarro and Olof Melander! Expect the unexpected: new work, improv, and a selection from Moor Mother’s rich oeuvre.

Opening: James McClure & João Guerra

Vocalist and poet Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother describes her music as “low fi/dark rap/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/black ghost songs”. Her vast discography meanders adventurously between jazz, hip hop, and noise, with records under her own name, under the moniker 700 Bliss (with DJ Haram), or in collaborations with Irreversible Entanglements, the avant-metal band SUMAC, and many more.

“Moor Mother might be the most radical Afrofuturist artist to emerge for years” – The Wire

https://moormother.bandcamp.com/

Recently, Moor Mother has moved toward a more melodic and song-oriented approach, while still blending spoken word, experimental jazz, electronics, and radical poetry. Her album Jazz Codes (2023) draws from her poetry project and pays tribute to jazz visionaries such as Woody Shaw and Mary Lou Williams, combining layered vocals, atmospheric production, and free-form improvisation in collaboration with Swedish producer Olof Melander. On her latest full length album The Great Bailout (2024), she expands this cinematic and haunting sound into a powerful meditation on colonial history, displacement, and collective memory, moving between tenderness, noise, jazz abstraction, and poetic storytelling.

Internationally renowned trumpeter Aquiles Navarro — also her bandmate in Irreversible Entanglements and multi-faceted artist in his own right— contributed to Jazz Codes as well as Circuit City and Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, and later collaborated with Melander on the album Tangles (2024).

Watch this video on YouTube

This event is present by Space is the Place
Since its founding in 2017, SITP has organized improvised music concerts that encourage creativity across genres and disciplines. Over the years, it has expanded through collaborations with venues and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, including BIMHUIS, Paradiso, and WORM.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/moor-mother-with-aquiles-navarro-and-olof-melander-james-mcclure-and-joao-guerra

#Afrofuturism #TouchDesigner

Hi!

I work on stuff between digital culture, hacking/engineering, ancestor work, and eco-social justice

Besides that, I like inline skating, making beats, and gardening

Currently I’m working on a project called Kite Node - which is a kite made from natural and reused materials used to hoist LoRa devices into the air

https://freddyeee.github.io/Kite-Node/

#introductions #afrofuturism #permacomputing #solarpunk

Mind of My Mind "Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Octavia E. Butler Rating: 4.6/5 (1,569 Reviews) #SciFi #Afrofuturism #Telepathy #WomensFiction #BookDeals #BookSky

Mind of My Mind

#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! #afrofuturism #BlackFuture #wakandacore #BlackSpeculativeFiction #scifi #blackscifi #bookstagram #booksky #books
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
A Kindness of Ghosts - River Solomon
The Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Far Sector - NK Jemisin
War Girls - Tochi Onyebuchi

Dawn "She did not own herself any longer. Even her flesh could be cut and stitched without her consent or knowledge" Sale: $18.99 to $1.99 by Octavia E. Butler Rating: 4.4/5 (6,100 Reviews) #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #Afrofuturism #AlienContact #Genetics #WomensFiction #BookSky

Dawn

J'écoute cet album de #Funkadelic et juste wow c'est fou la création qu'ils avaient !

#music #funk #pfunk #afrofuturism

Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/

Also, the score (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9tY0BWXOZFuaz5r4BJZJbVZvxgmvwhKi&si=F_CtVMhFHZJozItZ) and Soundtrack (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBWvYm8t6uYwIl7cz3KtXYuud63-SPpF&si=wTGf_ZbOgzlrJV_8) for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (2022)
#ILIkeToWatch #BlankPanther #WakandaForever #RyanCoogler #LudwigGoransson #AfroFuturism #MCU #MarvelComics

And the soundtrack (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBWvYm8t6uYwIl7cz3KtXYuud63-SPpF&si=kWfzY_KQkWbQuyoM), Score (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mcFrp7QDfOP8VM-CJN7NU6P4M9tzV7CEE&si=xCY0AgxNQ78CUlHO) and Remix album (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJ5rfzDZP9ZG6-diB7V-1FlSd6Weox8lA&si=cSNz9257oSjBlCgY) for “Black Panther” (2018)
#ILIkeToWatch #BlankPanther #RyanCoogler #LudwigGoransson #AfroFuturism #MCU #MarvelComics

OMG AUNTY PATTI & HER SISTERS SINGING LADY MARMALADE

Labelle was #afrofuturism for #GenX Black girls

#tv #music #TOTP

Afro futurism – By HYPER in Nairobi, Africa

https://streetartutopia.com/2021/04/23/afro-futurism-by-hyper-in-nairobi-africa/