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Posted By admin on July 19, 2024

This takes the shape of writing, coding, community organizing, image-making and curation, as well as the coining of new terms which serve as umbrellas for Githeres research. This began with the #Digitaldiaspora project, which examines how Black diasporic people use the internet for identity-formation. The community initiative also traces how Black and African people innovated in the early race for cyberspaceand how the Afro-diasporic experience is manifesting on and offline.

Then came Afropresentism, a shifting concept which addresses the various states of Black and African diaspora experience today. The term began as a genre fusing archives, documentary, and fine arts through new media in the expression of an Afrofuturist lived reality, Githere writes, but has now expanded into a unifying principle for their publishing and world-building projects, both in person and online. What does the term mean today? Afropresentism is a temporal rebellion; a collage of invisible arts, specifically sound, memory and a desire that comes from beyond flesh, Githere says.

From afar, Githeres work may appear as a variation on Afrofuturism, which is the fusion of African diaspora culture with technology, sci-fi and speculative futures across literature, music, film and poetry. Afrofuturism, particularly in the work of writers like Octavia E. Butler, is the mothership vision that gave me a lens of understanding cyberculture from a Black and African lens, Githere explains.

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Theorist and writer Neema Githere on healing, re-Indigenization and Afropresentism - WePresent

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