Black Sci-Fi: Stories from the End of the World
September 7, 2021 12:50 PM   Subscribe

A documentary on BBC Radio 4 presented by writer and abolitionist Walidah Imarisha on the power - and the rich history - of speculative, visionary fiction by black authors in the UK, USA and Africa, and how activism is a creative act of bringing new realities into being. In conversation with multidisciplinary artists Moor Mother and Rasheedah Philips, Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, and British feminist writer and researcher Lola Olufemi.

Walidah Imarisha previously.
posted by spamandkimchi (6 comments total) 32 users marked this as a favorite
 
Wonderful, thank you.
posted by dng at 1:08 PM on September 7, 2021 [1 favorite]


This seems like an excellent comment to the themes of N. K. Jemisin's How Long 'Til Black Future Month?, which I just started reading. Thank you!
posted by brook horse at 4:09 PM on September 7, 2021


*Complement... missed the edit window.
posted by brook horse at 4:14 PM on September 7, 2021


Nnedi Okorafor's Binti stories are wonderful, in case you haven't read them.
posted by pipeski at 4:20 PM on September 7, 2021 [1 favorite]


I'm so eagerly awaiting the sequel to "Black Leopard, Red Wolf"
posted by rebent at 5:19 AM on September 8, 2021 [1 favorite]


Thanks!

Related:
adrienne maree brown talks about this eloquently in Emergent Strategy
and, should you live in/near the SF Bay Area, the Oakland Museum of California has a new Afrofuturism exhibit
posted by obsoletefuture at 9:55 AM on September 8, 2021 [1 favorite]


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