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Thanks. Joe Bassey ( talk) 00:34, 24 October 2021 (UTC) reply

But when you started editing it on 13 june till date you began adding unverified statement. you are also one year old on Wikipedia, so don't threaten me with such nonsense. Moreover wikipedia is not a place to be adding ethnic biased statement because you are from such ethnic group. Do research because i have created far complex and reliable pages than you have ever done.

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Hi Emmanuel,

As you see, I'm Africanfuturist. Your Africanfuturism page says the term was first coined in 2019. I've used it since 1994. An article in South Africa's Mail and Guardian ^[1] from 1996 quotes me using it. My definition is different to your article. It's less about speculative fiction and more about the idea of a real world future where African science, technology and thought takes its rightful place in world culture. I was thinking more about Italian Futurism than Afrofuturism. In 2004, I created an Africanfuturist manifesto film. ^[2] You can also find Africanfuturist as a handle in many places on the internet: gmail, hotmail, me.com, mac.com, flickr, Pinterest, behance, Vimeo, instagram and, of course here at Wikipedia. All those accounts predate 2019, often by more than 20 years.

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Africanfuturist, the reference from Mail and Guardian didn't have a thing called "Africanfuturist/ism" in it. Perhaps, you should find more. Secondly, the video on Vimeo was uploaded recently and there's no proof that it was made in 2004. Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans} 11:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC) reply

User:Reading Beans Thanks for the response, I do appreciate it. Emmanuel okon269 ( talk) 22:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC) reply

User:Reading Beans Hi Reading Beans. Just having a quick look, I found my flickr account. Flickr documents that the Africanfuturist account was created in 2005. The above-mentioned film was posted in it in 2009. Here's a link, Africanfuturist's Artist Statement. I can't see how you would need clearer proof. The film also clearly states the meaning of Africanfuturism, which is not at all about Science fiction themed art. I'd also like to point out that the Gwen Ansel article in the Weekly Mail and Guardian of 1996 mentioned above, states: "with distinctively South African keyboard riffs and vocal lines. It labels itself “African futurist jazz”. The author is quoting from an interview with Colin Charles. This mention pre-dates 2019 by 25 years. africanfuturist ( talk) 22:41, 5 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Africanfuturist, the flickr showed it was posted in 2008 and the Weekly Mail and Guardian of 1996 contained the word 'African futurist' as opposed to 'Africanfuturism'. Africanfuturism is one word, not two words or spelled as African Futurism and it's strictly about speculative fiction and aesthics rooted in Africa. Nnedi Okorafor coined the word and many trusted sources confirmed it including The New York Times. Emmanuel okon269 ( talk) 09:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your response, Emmanuel. I understand and appreciate your points about the New York Times and Nnedi Okorafor.

Here's where I'm coming from: Back in 1994, I read a book by Douglas Rushkoff called Media Virus. In it, he discusses Memes, a term coined by Richard Dawkins to describe a cross between a myth and a theme. He describes how, even back in the days of Ancient Greece, people peddled myths to influence society. At that moment, I realised that Marcus Garvey, in inventing the phrase, Black is Beautiful, had created a powerful meme. The power was in the collision between the words Black and Beautiful, the the liberating though occurs when precisely the opposite is the prevailing social truth in a society where black people lighten their skin and straighten their hair. Also, I imagined Garvey, in studying the Stars and Stripes with it's 50-odd white stars, created his second great meme: The United States of Africa. This gave birth to the Pan Africanist movement.

At this point, after writing an essay for Johannesburg's first black advertising agency on this subject, (please find it below) I decided to create a meme of my own with a similar collision – and came up with Africanfuturist. I had long admired the Italian Futurist art movement of the early 20th Century and set about seeding my new invention on the emerging internet. I started with my email address and joined as many groups as I could, using Africanfuturist as my handle. I also seeded the name Hector Peterssen because at that time he was virtually unknown outside Soweto and the South African Black consciousness movement – and I seeded The United States of Africa. For a few years, searches through Lycos or Alta Vista (early search engines) would only turn up references to my own interventions but by the time google hit the scene, several people began to openly describe themselves as Africanfuturists. I was overjoyed. My plan was working. In fact, as soon as I noticed Nnedi had used the term, I immediately wrote to her.

The Africanfuturist statement film in the Africanfuturist flickr account clearly states that it's not merely about Africa themed science fiction literature and art, it's about creating a vision of Africa's future. I appreciate why you'd like to continue to claim that the term Africanfuturist was first coined in 2019 but in the true spirit of Wikipedia you need to acknowledge the flickr account that was created in 2005 and the Africanfuturist Statement that was posted in 2008 as well as the reference to African Futurist jazz in 1995 printed in South Africa's well respected newspaper, the Mail and Guardian.

Just for background, here's my essay written in 1994, before I coined the term Africanfuturist.

"Don’t know much about Virology

At my first official job, as a building labourer on a large construction site, I secretly conducted a series of experiments on the other workers. I would spend the first part of the morning distributing cups of tea, (which was my duty) and whistling a well-known tune, (which was not). I’d select a tune that was universally hated. An inane, impoverished piece of music; audacious in its ugliness. One day it might be Rolf Harris’s Two Little Boys, another, Jonathan King’s Una Paloma Blanca.

My objective was to infect as many chippies, sparks and steel fixers as I could before lunch. I got the idea for this experiment when I realised that often I'd find myself humming a tune that I didn't like and then wonder how it got in my head. It seemed like my mind had bypassed its desktop and taken the tune up in background. The concept fascinated me and I was delighted that, by the time I'd delivered afternoon tea, men would be whistling, singing in rich baritones and even banging rhythms with their hammers, all grooving to the tune that I had implanted that morning.

Twenty years later, at the University of East London, I discovered that everyday events such as these can be studied as Cultural Studies or Semiotics. It was even rumoured that there were Professors in American universities who read nothing but cereal boxes and who could spontaneously self-deconstruct. Far from being outraged at this prospect, I was inspired.

Ideas, like tunes, also infiltrate society, but in the form of myths. I remember shopping with mother at Tescos. There were white eggs piled up to the ceiling, likewise, white sugar, white bread, white rice and white flour. White, since colonial times, has always meant purity; hence Snow White; whose skin was white as snow. Even heroin and cocaine were valued most when they were purest. But our family didn't eat white eggs. We went to the health food shop to buy brown eggs due to the well-known myth that brown eggs were healthier.

The funny thing was, that television, which was far more powerful in Britain at the time of my childhood than it is now, repeatedly wheeled out a white-coated scientist, to explain that there was no difference between white and brown eggs. Still, my mum and many other mums continued to buy brown eggs to the extent that today, in floor-to-ceiling egg-piles, white eggs cannot be found. Presumably, an entire species of chicken, the White Egg Layer, is now extinct, without even a whimper from Greenpeace or friends of the Earth; proving beyond dispute, that myth is far stronger than scientific fact.

White may still be associated with purity but Brown now signifies health. Black, incidentally, is Beautiful. A counter-myth invented by Marcus Garvey in the 1910's as part of his strategy to antidote and relieve the pressure of Black-inferiority-culture in America at that time. Even now, the phrase is instantly liberating, precisely because the opposite vibes are still endemic.

Myths such as these are powerful. Once created they can take on a life of their own and clearly have a social significance far broader than their literal meaning. The original myth can disappear while its essence lives on. Attitudes permeate society like insidious melodies. Author and geneticist Richard Dawkins calls this phenomena a Meme (pronounced like theme) and believes that the annoying habit his students have of wearing their baseball caps backwards is a prime example.

Myths and memes traditionally inhabit society's collective psyche but Memeologist, Douglas Rushkoff, believes that they can also find a life in the media, which he feels itself is now alive, or behaves as though it is, in much the same way that the ocean, a coral reef or the weather does. In his recent book, Media Virus, Ruskoff demonstrates that once a meme has penetrated the media, it can adapt to its new surroundings, mutate and replicate itself into a full-blown media virus. He cites the infamous amateur video of Rodney King being beaten to pulp by LA's finest, which evolved into the blood and firestorms of South Central - as a prime example. He also suspects that the concept of Smart Drugs - drugs that are smart to use or that make you smarter - was deliberately created by viral anarchists (or drug dealers) in an attempt to rehabilitate the use of drugs in the face of the U.S. Government's war on drugs.

The idea that the establishment also competes for viral territory is not new. The venerable and late Trinidadian cricket critic and political pundit, CLR James, concluded that even in ancient Greece, the government was absorbed in the construction of myths in order to influence or mollify its electorate. He also proposed that the myth that Africans were not capable of looking after their own affairs was deliberately cultivated and perpetuated by colonialists in order to justify Africa's subjugation. But at the same time, the concept and popularisation of the Snow White story could hardly have been the work of a paid-up member of the white supremacist conspiracy, it was merely a living tune that had infiltrated the author's mind without his knowledge. This tune is now in transition; a contemporary Snow White, in her pallor, could easily be suspected of being on drugs and be sent on holiday by her parents to tan-up, while her doctor would certainly advise her to eat brown bread and brown rice.

In today's media, advertisers deliberately attempt to manufacture jingles and catch-phrases that will become social currency, but even they are forced to use tanned actors who wear their baseball caps backwards. This proves that the best social viruses, like the best jokes aren't manufactured but are alive on arrival, encompassing, in their simplicity, an entire way of thinking.

And speaking of jokes, isn't it strange that the kind of jokes that are made-up, puns for instance, merely provoke a groan or at best a faint chuckle. Genuine jokes - those that sound like they've been around since the beginning of time and have perennially had names and circumstances changed to fit each new context - are the only ones to earn an authentic belly-laugh. With meme-mongers, such as politicians, viral anarchist and advertisers busy filling the air with their manipulative artistry, it is reassuring to know that Social Virology is still, largely an unpredictable science."

Colin Charles for Herdbouys Advertising, Johannesburg, March 1994. africanfuturist ( talk) 09:21, 10 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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How are you doing Savagexx? it has been awhile. It seems you opted to change your name, hope you don't mind if I stick to your previous name? Alright. Why I'm here. I was wondering if we could go to Locus magazine, Brittle Paper and other Afro-African-Nigerian publications to help create more articles and expand the already made stubs? Would you be interested in that? Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans?} 12:38, 17 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Reading Beans sure, I'm interested in this brilliant idea and project. So when are we starting? Savagexx ( talk) 20:30, 18 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Savagexx, anytime, you can create a subpage where this will take place, then we'd add the stubs we'd improve and also list articles to be created there. Lost my phone recently, so, I would be slow for some while till I get a new SIM. Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans?} 06:30, 19 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Reading Beans Sorry for the late reply but you would be the one to create a subpage because I have forgotten how to create one Savagexx ( talk) 14:28, 23 May 2022 (UTC) reply

I want to believe you received the ping. If you didn't, it is here. Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans?} 14:39, 23 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Reading Beans I will be bringing articles to be made not only from Locus and Brittle Paper but from the Nommo Award and generally from elsewhere as long as it's notable and it's written by an African or African American regardless of genres. Savagexx ( talk) 16:08, 23 May 2022 (UTC) reply

That’s the plan. -- Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans?} 07:48, 24 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Okay. Let's do it then Savagexx ( talk) 08:23, 24 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Reading Beans, I have made an outline of articles to be created and improved in the sub page, you can add yours also let's work on it together. Savagexx ( talk) 08:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Let’s complete the ones there. I’ll start with Nikki May Reading Beans ^{Talk to the Beans?} 08:59, 24 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Reading Beans I will be starting with A Psalm of Storm and Silence Savagexx ( talk) 23:57, 26 May 2022 (UTC) reply

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