{"id":5966,"date":"2018-11-13T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:15:39","slug":"understanding-afro-futurism-by-tj-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/understanding-afro-futurism-by-tj-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Afro-futurism by TJ Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6099\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC_8405-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The panel is a fiery one. The notion of identity and evolution on the African continent is explored by Wole Talabi who was recently shortlisted for the Caine Prize, Tochi Onyebuchi who won the 2018 Nommo for his novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beasts Made of Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Tosin Oshinowo, a celebrated architect and photographer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6100\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC_8392-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The panel is moderated by Geoff Ryman who comments to everyone\u2019s acclaim \u201cI don\u2019t believe the term Magical Realism applies to Africa. You never lost your spirituality, you never lost your customs.\u201d He asks Tosin about her life as a multifaceted artist and she comments that she does not believe there is any creative who does only one thing. She believes this is tied to creativity and that the new generation of Nigerians consume indigenous art which came from a stronger sense of identity and self. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6101\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC_8396-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Wole believes that we are still in the stage of regaining our history. He spends his time imagining African futures without the lens of the west. This is also something important to Tosin\u2019s architecture work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6102\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC_8374-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Wole says that it is terrible that till this day, people define science as a body of work from the west, he believes every nation has its own science, its own way of doing things and as we evolve into the future we must evolve with them, and leave behind the things that don\u2019t serve us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel is a fiery one. 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