Welcome to the sounds of the Indigenous future: a hyperpresent now, melding the worlds within and beyond what we can hear, see and imagine. In collaboration with Kimiwan Zine’s new issue, we are proud to bring you the Indigenous Futurisms mixtape. Read more: http://rpm.fm/music/download-indigenous-futurisms-mixtape/ #IndigenousFuturisms
Read moreHe wouldn’t hit golf balls like the American astronauts. He would squeeze out rhythms from a talking drum into the blackness between the stars. These were the drums of war and death, of celebration, the drums that had bonded the towns of his homeland over centuries in tonal communication… He would bind the stars with the drums. There would be dancing.
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Pumzi, written & directed by Wanuri Kahiu
Dans un Kenya futuriste, Asha, une jeune scientifique se décide à quitter lâentourage confiné de la ville a la recherche dâune Utopie verte.
In a futuristic Kenya, Asha, a young scientist decides to leave the confined environment of the city in search of a green utopia.
Awesome short.
Afronnauts by Frances Bodomo
teaser trailer from the film
If there was ever a figure who was the embodiment of Afrofuturism it would be Jazz musician, Sun Ra, although to place him within the borders of a musical genre does not do him justice as an artist. With no legal birth certificate, it is believed he was born in the Jim Crow state of Alabama.
Sun Ra created a mythical, ethereal persona that merged science fiction with Egyptian mysticism, producing an otherworldliness that matched the music he made from the 50s to his death in 1993. Adding to his legend, he also claimed to not be of this Earth, explaining:
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I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.
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Afrofuturism: where space, pyramids and politics collide | Chardine Taylor-Stone
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 