“ I’m not real. I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society. If you did, your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights. You’re not real. If you were, you’d have some status among the nations of the world. So, we’re both myths. I do not come to you as a reality; I come to you as the myth, because that’s what Black people are. Myths. I came from a dream that the Black man dreamed a long time ago. I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.”
- Sun Ra, Space is the Place
In the first episode of this season of Race Beyond Borders, Nigel Richard and artist Kumbirai Makumbe draw from the range of scholarship about Blackness to make some pretty bold claims about its future.
In the first of a 4-part essay series, writer Lindokuhle Nkosi centralises that scholarship to take the conversation further, drawing explicit connections to the work of other Afrofuturist thinkers.
