What is Afro-futurism and how does it link to recent blockbuster films with superheroes ?
This presentation by Dr Michelle Asantewa will cover:
- African Spirituality as ripped off by Hollywood
- Time travel in the Sinners movie
- Octavia Butler her writings and her accurate predictions of the future
- Black women science fiction/fantasy writers
- The graphic novel as a way to tell real Black history and Black future stories
- Two short films on Afro-futurism plus Q&A
- African Odysseys,17,000 global majority voices and racism @BFI
- White superheroes who should be Black
See also the Prince of Peckham 20 university lectures which has three fun history events aimed at children on holiday HERE
Other coming events from Black History Walks
- Black History Steam train tour
- Black History Bus Tour
- 20 Banned Black Films you need to see
- How Black people won World War 2
- Hackney, Harlem, St Paul'/Bank, Theatreland and Soho Black History Walks
- African Odysseys, Racism @BFI
- Harry Belafonte Story
- Esther Anderson all dayer
- 60 years of Black British Civil Rights, racism @BFI with Professor Gus John
- Black British Civil Rights, Kung Fu and anti-racist street fighters
- Black History Helicopter tour
- Sign petition to save 17 years of Black film history at BFI Southbank HERE
About the presenter
Dr Michelle Asantewa is an award-winning author, independent educator, cultural consultant and publisher. Her publications include the young adult novel, Elijah, The Awakening and Other Poems, Guyanese Komfa: The Ritual Art of Trance and Something Buried in the Yard, published by Way Wive Wordz Publishing, which she co-founded in 2014. She is the editor of the anthology In Search of Mami Wata. Mama Lou Tales, a biography of her mother received a prize for the Guyana Literary Prize in 2022. Her first collection of short stories, Rupununi Affair was published in 2024. Dr Asantewa is the co-organiser of the Annual Osun River Ritual that takes place each August at Morden Hall Park, where she has facilitated Walking Meditation and Creative Writing Workshops.
