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Abstract
Seeking traces of the afrofuture in the present, Ayité has collected sonic artifacts in the form of interviews, soundscapes, and the like, that capture the daily practice of future making throughout the Black diaspora (including Ghana, Senegal, and Black communities in Colorado). All sound was processed into three hours of music, intending not only to affirm the vitality of the afrofuturist imaginary globally, but to creatively predict what the afrofuture might sound like based on the sonic features of Black diasporic life in the present. Taking an afrocentric framework, Ayité seeks to challenge the dominant epistemic and speculative paradigm that both appropriates and silences active contributors to human progress on the basis of race, culture, or geographical location.