{"id":2403,"date":"2021-02-11T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:01:35","slug":"afrofuturism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2021\/02\/11\/afrofuturism\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2021\/02\/10\/your-guide-to-africanfuturist-science-fiction\/?utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_term=tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter&amp;utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=tordotcom&amp;e=600a1a40d8724dfbdae30c1d0b95042d25b30b403a677fd7c9cc64f0fc9f85c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Africanfuturism-Primer.png?fit=1440%2C866&amp;type=vertical&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"mage sourced from \" width=\"1440\" height=\"866\" \/><\/a> You may have seen the Afrofuturism display in the hall outside the library and wondered what it was all about. There is some information on the board, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2021\/02\/10\/your-guide-to-africanfuturist-science-fiction\/?utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_term=tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter&amp;utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=tordotcom&amp;e=600a1a40d8724dfbdae30c1d0b95042d25b30b403a677fd7c9cc64f0fc9f85c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here&#8217;s<\/a> an interesting article about Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism &#8211; a term coined by author Nnedi Okorafor and explained in her blog post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nnedi.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/africanfuturism-defined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africanfuturism Defined<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>You can also find more resources in our <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.follettsoftware.com\/collection\/601c393ee7ab32001283add1?h=87aefea1cfb58b8aa215eaf7c947bf194a7bf18eb2219c44f27001ab0eab1e8c\">Afrofuturism Collection in Destiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the Afrofuturism display in the hall outside the library and wondered what it was all about. There is some information on the board, but here&#8217;s an interesting article about Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism &#8211; a term coined &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/2021\/02\/11\/afrofuturism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/north-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}