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By Noel Cody ·Updated February 2, 2024
If you’ve been following Queen Bey, you know she is making history with her use of Afrofuturism—and she’s not the only artist exploring this idea or infusing it into current culture. But what exactly is it? What does it mean? And how does it influence us today?
Let’s start with the word itself. The term Afrofuturism was created by author Mark Dey in 1994, but the
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