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Afrofuturism

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Early works like Metropolis (1927), often showed future worlds controlled by white men, which left out Black perspectives. Afrofuturism reclaims this space, m..

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Afrofuturism in Music Video

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The Darkness Between the Stars

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Tamil Futures

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Imagine a World...

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RESET: A Journey into Cyberpunk

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In search of myself

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Cyberpunk

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Etcetera

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The Last Angel of History

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Rap race and equality

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Olalekan Jeyifous' The Anarchonauts and Shanty Megastructures

United States, 2015-2019
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Science fiction: towards the twentieth century

United Kingdom, 1978
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Africa is my home

United States, 1960
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African awakening

United Kingdom, 1962
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Art for tomorrow

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Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death

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The Universe and I: the future

United States, 1976
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The World of the future

United States, 1976
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