C. Brandon Ogbunu on Afrofuturism as a Tech Framework
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Afrofuturism is an aesthetic that centres the Black diaspora in imaginings of the future. What can Silicon Valley learn from Afrofuturists’ concerns with questions of power and about how tech is never neutral?
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