The whole of the first hour on today’s Ujima show was taken up with a discussion of AfroFuturism. It included three interviews that I recorded at WFC. They were with with Bill Campbell, who published and co-edited the Mothership anthology, plus two contributors: Tobias Buckell & Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. In the studio with me was another contributor, Tade Thompson, who was amazingly good and is welcome back on my radio shows any time. We also had music from George Clinton and Janelle Monáe, as one should. I haven’t listened back to it yet, but assuming all has gone well the whole show is available to be streamed here.

Huge thanks are due to all of my interviewees, both pre-recorded and live, and to Seth my engineer.

For those of you who would like to know more about AfroFuturism, I heartily recommend Ytasha Womack’s book. Sadly I can’t stock that one, but I do have Mothership, and I also have Adventure Rocketship #1, which contains articles by Minister Faust about George Clinton, and by N.K. Jemisin about Janelle Monáe.