Mancala Gameworlds and the Afrofuturist Orbit

February 19, 2021 - By John S. Wright, Professor Emeritus University of Minnesota

I managed to meet prize-winning Macalester College novelist/professor Marlon James last year following the publication of his epic fantasy saga "Black Leopard, Red Wolf."  It's the first of a planned trilogy in the Afrofuturist orbit: the multidisciplinary movement to imagine or reimagine human technological, social, and political futures and pasts through black speculative cultural lenses.