Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism
Aaron X. Smith (ed.), Molefi Kete Asante (contributor)
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2023
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9781496847881
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9781496847836
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Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism
Molefi Kete Asante (contributor)
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M. Ndiika Mutere
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October 2023
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Mutere, M. Ndiika, 'Hantu From The Oral-Aesthetic Perspective: AfroFuturism Transcending the Matrix Space-Time Warp', in Aaron X. Smith (ed.), Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism (
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This chapter discusses how Africa's space-time continuum, referred to within Bantu philosophical thought as hantu, has been warped on multiple levels by competing Western ideologies and political agendas. The role played by the university in constructing humanity's controlling narratives makes the institution a pivotal link within the pipeline of Western industrial processes and alienating ideas of “progress” which have been largely dependent upon African resource control, including claims to ancient Egypt. In contrast, an Africa-centered perspective values a balanced chronological worldview in the spirit of sankofa, where looking back is essential to most effectively and productively moving forward. The chapter then explains the concept of ubuntu and considers how, from diasporic theaters, African oral traditions have uniquely and significantly contributed toward human well-being through their culturally mandated art-for-life's-sake role. Black pop music is a significant paradigm of proof in this regard. The chapter also looks at how writing became the latter-day cultural aggressor in human communication and affairs, evolving as a weapon of “creative destruction” to create a matrix of containment, order, and control in contrast to African oral-aesthetic praxis and Bantu philosophical principles.
Keywords: Bantu philosophical thought, hantu, sankofa, ubuntu, diasporic theaters, African oral traditions, Black pop music, African oral-aesthetic praxis
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Race and Ethnicity
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