Great article by Helen Scales on how the mythical subaquatic empire of #Drexciya is inspiring a real movement to memorialize the horrific Middle Passage.

Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring calls for an ocean memorial to slavery

"The alternative Black history of a deep-sea civilisation has planted the seed for proposals to memorialise the 1.8 million Africans who died in the Atlantic"

by Helen Scales

#afrofuturism #futurism #scifi #sciencefiction #utopia #blacksciencefiction

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/25/drexciya-how-afrofuturism-inspired-calls-for-an-ocean-memorial-to-slavery