Sankofa Summer School: Afrofuturism

This course is designed for students to refine the Afrocentric approach to the study of Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative tradition to sharpen and broaden their critical thinking and analytical faculties through a study of selected texts. In a very real way this is both an introduction to and a course whose objective is to prepare students for the questions raised by the scholar Kodwo Eshun when he notes the need to study: the conceptual framework of our cultural moment…and… What are the parameters of that moment, the edge of that framework?” As such, we will be examining more than just the works and their authors, but also the social, ethical, spiritual, political, and philosophical bases upon which the emerging field of Afrofuturism is being built.