Post #2414105
2026-05-11 18:32 UTC
@foundseed@spore.social
I have family in Kenya. Did you know that people in East Africa played "Spot Your Culture" when watching Black Panther's Wakanda, as the movie was a (warm, but still a) parody of cultures from all over the continent. It was done respectfully >as Americans define it<, not as people on the ground can see representation.
Wakanda is an Atlantis that the Afrofuturism wants to be descended from, but it has little to do with Ghana or Kenya of today.
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@alxd@writing.exchange 2026-05-11 18:34
@foundseed@spore.social when working with a lot of Western writers and publishers I see them heavily preferring Afrofuturism and proud fairy tales over African Futurism showing actual problems and hopes of multiple regions. Hell, a lot of Publishers refuse to publish anything but poverty porn from Africa, even within their "utopian anthologies", completely ignoring all the support networks and traditions people have there.
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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-05-11 18:34
@alxd@writing.exchange I did hear a lot of talk about Black Panther and how actual African felt about it, yes.