From the margins to the centre: Afrofuturism as a proposal for a radically black future

In this text Kukily collectively approaches the topic of peripheries and processes of recognizing new centres. Initially defining their position – from where they are talking, from which peripheries and which centres – they move into a broader discussion of periphery-centre relations as they exist today. The knowledge of the periphery, especially that which comes from Africa and its diaspora, becomes a departure point to imagine futures, as well as create new ways of organising and relating. Kukily emphasises the links they find between afrofuturism and anticolonialism, which helps us understand their approach to connecting political and artistic work. By bringing their multidisciplinary artistic work XTRÆNCESTRAL into this text, they bring life into the theoretical work with practices rooted in their community and experiences as people of African descent.