A young singer from Congo-Brazzaville, Queen Tawa recently launched her label Liputa Swagga - Afro-futuristic extravaganza at its best. Marta Moreiras The swagger of her designs certainly ...

It consists of three weekends of community arts events centered around themes of Afro-optimism in dystopian times and the solar-punk aesthetic, which imagines a future where people and nature ...

What I liken it to is ‘The Jetsons’. That show was set in the future, but there were no Black people. Afrofuturism is putting us in every single thing that is done in this world.” ...

Hanus learned about the event through her International Scholars Program at the University of Florida, and it introduced her to the idea of merging Black culture with futuristic visions.