By narrating human being through something other than the framework of an imposed colonialism, Afrofuturism can imagine an end to the alienation District 9 depicts as largely inevitable. Afrofuturism, in contrast, imagines a future that breaks from colonially inherited racism by emphasizing traditional and indigenous African cultures. While Afropessimism offers incisive critiques of historic and contemporary racism, the future it imagines is either a repetition of the past or a violent revolution. Through a close reading of Neill Blomkamp's Afropessimist film District 9 (2009) and Nnedi Okorafor's Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (2014), written in response to the film, this article analyzes these projects' futures. In the contemporary crisis of race relations two schools of thought pursue the project of Black liberation: Afrofuturism and Afropessimism.
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