Afrofuturism — An Intersection of Black Imagination
11 min readSep 27, 2021
“Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures (Dery, 1994)?”
The term Afrofuturism was first uttered and subsequently coined by Mark Dery, an American cultural critic in his blog Pyrotechnic Insanitorium. Dery wrote:
