A decade later, Guyanese writer Bertène Juminer publishes 'La Revanche du Bozambo' (1968)/ 'Bozambo's Revenge' (1976), which transfers the plight of Africans struggling against European colonialism to Europeans struggling against African colonialism. At the All African Peoples' Congress, Kwame Nkrumah declares the century of Africa and proclaims a future USAF, a project still under consideration by the African Union (AU). Launched by Ghanaian director John Akomfrah's classic film 'The last angel of history' (1995), Afrofuturism looks back to modernist roots, but looks forward to the ramifications of postcoloniality and postmodernity. Journal of African Cinemas (ISSN 1754-923X)Įxtending the 1990s movement of Afrofuturism in new directions, recent African writers and filmmakers have made important satirical contributions to the idea of a future United States of Africa (USAF) to which westerners scramble to gain admittance. The United States of Africa: Afrofuturistic pasts and Afropolitan futures The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
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