Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

A 2014 Locus Awards finalist, nonfiction category.

Wonderfully narrated by Karen Chilton, Afrofuturism is an engaging, hip, and accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism.

Author Ytasha Womack introduces listeners to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works.

She writes engagingly about the innovators from the past and the wide range of subjects they explore - from the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and N.

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Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities.