“Most Westerners don’t even know whereabouts in Africa we are.” So said ...

Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first novel is The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019).
Virtual Roundtable on “Get Out”
In the weeks immediately following its release, Jordan Peele’s Get Out quickly established itself as the crossover film ...
Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing
Whence the “Afro” in “Afrofuturism”? In the 1994 interview with Samuel R. Delaney that inaugurated the term, Mark Dery defines Afrofuturism as “speculative fiction that treats African American themes ...