Afrofuturism is a buzzword for the fast-growing creative scene of the black continent. And his aesthetics is becoming more common.
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Africa is rapidly gaining weight. African artists exhibit European funds and museums, African architects receive awards and grants, and designers of African descent are becoming more prominent among the authors of fashion shows. The Black Panther by Ryan Kugler appeared on the screen - a film about a superhero from the fictional state of Wakand is already called the most important work of “black America.” Black Panther manifests afrofuturism and aestheticizes new Africa.
Osborne Macharia. Photographer from Nairobi, Kenya. Author of advertising images for the Black Panther series, which combines Maasai traditions and science fiction. 
Cyrus Kabiru (Cyrus Kabiru) is an artist from Nairobi, Kenya who specializes in garbage objects. 
Senegalese fashion designer Selly Rabbi Kane (Selly Raby Kane) is famous for its street clothes, which combines traditional African prints with a modern cut. Among the fans - Naomi Campbell and Beyonce. 
Zanele Muholi, a photographer from South Africa, received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ryerson University in Toronto. With her participation, FEW was founded - an organization that aims to provide security to lesbians. 
Peter Mabeo A designer and carpenter from Botswana launched his own furniture brand in 2006 and collaborates with European beau monde including Luka Nichetto, Patricia Urquiola and Swedes Claesson Koivisto Ruhe. 
A graduate of the Paris Academy of Fine Arts Senegalese Omar Ba (Omar Ba) loves to tell stories and mix technology. His work is represented by European galleries, and his works are in major museum collections, including the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi. 
South African artist and designer Etang Chikare (Atang Tshikare) and studio Zabalazaa Designs present things inspired by African mythology. He uses charred wood and grass fabrics as materials. 
Director of the African Design Center, Christian Benimana (Christian Benimana), runs the Rwandan office of Mass Design Group, a studio that integrates with local governments and NGOs in social projects. 
Nigerian architect Kunle Adeyemi (Kunlé Adeyemi), a protégé of OMA, founded his own NLÉ studio in 2010. He was impressed with his project of a floating school designed to facilitate education in flood-hit regions. 
Stephen Burks opened a design studio in New York in 2003. The portfolio includes Stephen Burks Man Made - projects with Cappellini, Dedon, Roche Bobois, Missoni. The Others street lamp published by Dedon. Synthetic fiber, handmade. 
The project of the photo artist Christina de Middel (Cristina de Middel) “Afronauts”. Since the American philosopher Mark Deri published the book Black to the Future (1993), in which he noted that all known ideas about the future are Eurocentric, the term afrofuturism has evolved from science fiction into a fashionable trend and spread to various kinds of art.
Clothing Y-3 in the interpretation of Christin-Lee Mulman. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition Items: Is Fashion Modern ?. According to the afrofuturists, the apocalypse has long come, and a small number of white technocrats have usurped power over scientific knowledge, which led to the colonization and enslavement of Africans.
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Human history is filled with tragedies and new technologies only exacerbate the situation. It is necessary to explore the past, crafts, practices, cults in order to better understand the images of the future. The theme for inspiration is the ancient gods, totems and spirits of ancestors, resurrected by technology or became part of the neural network.
Architect Diebedo Francis Kere (Diébédo Francis Kéré), author of the Serpentine Pavilion in 2017. Growing up in a small town in Burkina Faso, he built numerous schools in his native country. His goal is to show that traditional construction methods and materials can be combined with high technology. Related topic: Serpentine Pavilion: Africa in London
Afrofuturists view European contacts as contacts with "alien" aliens. The “new colonizers”, who planned to enslave or exterminate humanity, and pure Africans give rise to an “interplanetary race” possessing supernovae and genes.
Uganda documentary photographer Kenya Sarah Waiswa (Sarah Waiswa) - master of fashion portrait. The theme with which she performs at European festivals: New African Identity. Photo from the Stranger in Familiar Land series. 2017 The archaic and technology mix is strong, but increasingly obvious. Africa is the second mobile market in the world, after Asia. More than 1 billion Africans have connected to the mobile Internet in recent years, and mobile operators are actually replacing banking services and are already supporting the high-speed 4G format. More and more heroes from Kenya, South Africa or Senegal will enter our homes. Whether we like it or not.
