PhD student 'Wale Oladokun Review Publication

Comparative Studies PhD student Wale Oladokun has published a review of Kimberly Cleveland’s Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds. His review situates Cleveland’s work within broader conversations on decolonization, Afrofuturism, and the ongoing expansion of Africanfuturist thought.

Abstract
Around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and shortly after most of the African countries gained their independence, the struggle to break free from ever-invasive Eurocentric proclivities of Whitewashing almost all African literary, historical, and creative productions ushered in the era of decolonization characterizing the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and a host of other prominent scholars. The ember of this bequeathed legacy is what scholars and artists of the 21st century kept fanning until the term "Afrofuturism" was coined by Mark Dery. This book review considers the input of Kimberly Cleveland at greenlighting the very essence of "Africanfuturism".

Read the full review here.