AFRICANFUTURISM AS DECOLONIAL DREAMWORK AND DEVELOPMENTAL REBELLION

Jenna N. Hanchey

doi:10.4324/9780429317828-58

AFRICANFUTURISM AS DECOLONIAL DREAMWORK AND DEVELOPMENTAL REBELLION

Jenna N. Hanchey

Human Communication, Hugh Downs School of

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This chapter examines how Africanfuturism performs decolonial dreamwork, daring to invent futures for Africans by Africans in ways that reconceptualize development as rebellion. Those in power narrate future possibilities in ways that constrain imagination and agency, attempting to defuse developmental rebellion before it occurs. In particular, white, Western, corporate technofuturists describe Africa as dystopic in order to make resistance to developmental logics seem futile. Drawing from Africanfuturist fiction and film, this chapter examines how Africanfuturism offers an opportunity to delink from the ontologies and epistemologies of Western coloniality, and imagines radical futures by centering African agency and liberation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	575-585
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000934076
ISBN (Print)	9780367330613
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317828-58
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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