Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and journalist based in London, and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His previous books include Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2020. Michelle D. Commander is the associate director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017). Kameelah L. Martin is the director of the African American Studies Program and professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, North Carolina.

• Foreword by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward GalleryIntroduction: The Black FantasticChapter 1 Invocation: A Summoning of SpiritsExtract 1: Old Slavery Seen Through ModernEyes: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and HaileGerima’s Sankofa, by Adriano EliaAfrican Cosmologies and Black Feminism, by Kameelah MartinChapter 2 Migration: Journeys Across Sea and SpaceExtract 2: Afronauts: Race in Space, by Ian BourlandThe Space for Race, by Michelle CommanderChapter 3 Liberation: Dreams of FreedomExtract 3: Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution, by Tobias WoffordFilm, Play and Reading Lists

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Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and journalist based in London, and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His previous books include Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2020. Michelle D. Commander is the associate director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017). Kameelah L. Martin is the director of the African American Studies Program and professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, North Carolina.

• Foreword by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward GalleryIntroduction: The Black FantasticChapter 1 Invocation: A Summoning of SpiritsExtract 1: Old Slavery Seen Through ModernEyes: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and HaileGerima’s Sankofa, by Adriano EliaAfrican Cosmologies and Black Feminism, by Kameelah MartinChapter 2 Migration: Journeys Across Sea and SpaceExtract 2: Afronauts: Race in Space, by Ian BourlandThe Space for Race, by Michelle CommanderChapter 3 Liberation: Dreams of FreedomExtract 3: Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution, by Tobias WoffordFilm, Play and Reading Lists

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Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and journalist based in London, and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His previous books include Black Gold of the Sun and Africa State of Mind, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2020. Michelle D. Commander is the associate director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017). Kameelah L. Martin is the director of the African American Studies Program and professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, North Carolina.

• Foreword by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward GalleryIntroduction: The Black FantasticChapter 1 Invocation: A Summoning of SpiritsExtract 1: Old Slavery Seen Through ModernEyes: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and HaileGerima’s Sankofa, by Adriano EliaAfrican Cosmologies and Black Feminism, by Kameelah MartinChapter 2 Migration: Journeys Across Sea and SpaceExtract 2: Afronauts: Race in Space, by Ian BourlandThe Space for Race, by Michelle CommanderChapter 3 Liberation: Dreams of FreedomExtract 3: Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution, by Tobias WoffordFilm, Play and Reading Lists

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