Über die Wurzeln des Afrofuturismus in Musik, Literatur und Kunst

In the organizer's words:

Seminar

Afrofuturism is not a genre, but a movement. It arose from the need of Black* people to come to terms with a past that was denied them in the wake of colonialism and to imagine a future from which they were erased in popular science fiction. The seminar therefore focuses on the music, literature and art of the 1960s to 1990s, in which the efforts of Black* people to secure their own identity in the future were archived.

The program of the Black History Month in Cologne takes place in cooperation with our Office for Integration and Diversity. The seminar is offered by the Theodor Wonja Michael Library in cooperation with the Sonnenblumen Comunity Development Group e. V.

*Black people = chosen self-designation that addresses all people who themselves have an African or Afro-diasporic (e.g. Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American, Afro-German) background.