English 9 students are hard at work on an Afrofuturism project. After completing the novel Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. The book depicts the experiences of an African student in the future attending an intergalactic college, when her journey is intercepted by attacking aliens who take over the ship. The story has many allegorical elements. For the project, Mr. Baum’s classes chose between a research project in which they write a report on another artist in any discipline who uses afrofuturism, and connecting this to Binti. Another option is to create an original story using futuristic settings and portraying aspects of the African American experience.
