EVENT SCHEDULE

We are excited to bring you an ecclectic roster of artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and businesses as part of Future Waves. We are in the process of finalizing our schedule of events, sessions and exhibits.

IN PERSON EVENTS: RED

VIRTUAL EVENTS: BLUE

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Virtual Session 12:00pm CST

Dr. Walter Greason,
Graphic History Company

Fortune, Fanon, and Illmatic Consequences across Time

Dr. Tiffany Barber

Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation,
Author, UCLA (USA)

Sheree Renée Thomas

Mojorhythm, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction and Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
Associate Editor of Obsidian (USA)

Gerald Vreden

His Story of the World and Rise of the Mafu,
Author, Producer, Director (Netherlands)

Matté Lopez

Macalester College

(USA)

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Local Book Talk (Free Admission)

Location: Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Faculté des Sciences et Technologies de l’Education et de la Formation (FASTEF)

Boulevard Habib Bourguiba, Dakar

Time: 5:00 PM

Moderator: Dr. Barrel Sow Gueye
Cheikh Anta Diop University

Thursday, September 11, 2025 Virtual Sessions

2:00 PM CT (3:00 PM ET)

Jolie Davis
Fanon and the Rondo-Verse

Macalester College (USA)

Welcome

Stephen Ibaaku Bassene
Producer, Author, Composer and Radio host (Senegal)

Keynote

Reynaldo Anderson

Afrofuturism 2.0 and World Order: Techno-Authoritarianism and the Dark Enlightenment, Afrofuturism and World Order
Author, Executive Director, BSAM Black Speculative Arts Movement, Temple University (USA)

Friday, September 12, 2025

Futures Waves Conference Location
Artiste Du Daanu Dakar

PGH5+MQ8, Dakar
10am-4pm

OPENING CEREMONY (Libation)

Matté Lopez

Macalester College (USA)

Zaphena Kelly, B.Sc.
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Berlin (Germany)

Reflections Beyond the Mask: AfroFuturist Simulation in the Mirror of Social Worlds

DAY 1: SESSIONS
Africana Futures: The Next Generation

10:30am

Chair: Asha Salim

Temple University (USA)

Beyond the Mask: The Negotiation of Identity Between Race and Belonging

Dr. Philip Butler

Iliff School of Theology (USA)

SEEKR Project

Yul Anderson
African American Future Society (USA)

Artificial Intellgence and Forecast Methodology

Mansa Ousman Camara
Directeur Exécutif chez Yelen Consulting (Ivory Coast)
Ivory Coast 2025 Presidential Election Candidate

Masamba Thioye (Senegal)

Innovation, Climate Change and sustainability

DAY 1: SESSIONS

A.I., Forecasting and Us (Ancestral Intelligence)

12:45pm

Dr. Lawana Richmond UCSD, (USA)

The Afrofuturism Lounge

Danian Darrell Jerry Temple University (USA)

Excavating the Ausarian Cycle: Afrofuturism and Epic Narrative

Dr. Darrell Stover
North Carolina State University (USA)

Fanon's Algeria to Burkina Faso: Words, Independence Liberation and an Afrofuturist Idea

Marcela Angulo Screenwriter, director, producer (Colombia)

FUTURE WAVES Thinking While Feeling screening + conservatory

DAY 1: SESSIONS
Afrofuturist Storytelling and World Building
2:30pm

Chair: Dacia Polk
BSAM, Word-Up (USA)

DAY 1: SESSIONS
Visual Futures
3:30pm

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Chair: Quentin VerCetty

Multidisciplinary storyteller, Art of Africa and Global Diaspora Senior Educator at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Executive Director of AstroSankofa Arts Initiatives, Founder and Steward of BSAM Canada

Participants: Local Dakar Artists

Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (USA)

Afrofuturist Feminism and pre-colonial religious praxis

Chair: Natasha A. Kelly
(Germany)

Dr. Tiffany Barber
UCLA (USA)

Black Women’s Aesthetic Futures

Lena Young
Futurist and Design Strategist (USA)

She See Tomorrow: Sankofa Futures and Constellations of Change

DAY 1: SESSIONS
HerStory of the Future

5:15pm

12:30 PM CST

Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel
BMCC, NYC
TransAtlantic Bondage and the Future of Black Diaspora Studies

1:00 PM CST

Dr. Luisa Ossa
LaSalle University
Multi-lingual Analysis and Black Studies

DAY 1: VIRTUAL SESSIONS

DAY 1: DINNER ON YOUR OWN

DAY 1: Film Screening
Location: Artiste Du Daanu PGH5+MQ8, Dakar
7:30pm

Films TBA

Welcome

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Future Waves conference location:
Axil Hotel Dakar
Avenue Faidherbe x, Rue Raffenel
Dakar 13000, Senegal

10:00-4:00pm

Reynaldo Anderson

Author, Executive Director, BSAM Black Speculative Arts Movement, Temple University (USA)

Ousman Camara

(Ivory Coast)

Chair: Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo
Swiss Parliamentarian
Pan-African Women Association
(Switzerland)

Dr. Reynaldo Anderson

Temple University (USA)

Quentin Vercetty
Multidisciplinary storyteller, Art of Africa and Global Diaspora Senior Educator at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Executive Director of AstroSankofa Arts Initiatives, Founder and Steward of BSAM Canada

DAY 2: SESSIONS
Africa and African Diaspora Roundtable: (Diaspora Wars and the Fight for Our Future)

11:00am

DAY 2: LUNCH

12:00-12:45

Dr. Natasha A. Kelly (Germany)

Beyond Alienation: Afrofuturism and the Refiguration of Ontology

Christina Hudson
PhD Candidate, Temple University (USA)

Futurizing Fanon: Afro-STEM 2.0: A Semiotic Insurgency

DAY 2: SESSIONS
Afrocentric-Afrofuturism and Fanon

12:45pm- 1:25pm

Chair: Dr. Kimani Nehusi
Temple University (USA)
Franz Fanon, the duty of each generation, and Afrikan tradition

Dr. Mathew Pettway
University of South Alabama (USA)
Rethinking Manhood through an African Lens: The Ethics of Resistance to Homoerotic Violence in Colonial Brazil

Darius Cret
PhD Candidate

The University of Edinburgh

Black Rage and the Psychopolitics of Negation: Futurizing Insanity in the Wake of Frantz Fanon

Tony Baugh
PhD Candidate

The University of Edinburgh

Slaving to Be Human: Commodity, Capitalism, and Cultural Appropriation

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Thomas Baruzzi
PhD Candidate

The University of Edinburgh

Afrofuturism Meets its Imposter: The Role of Sex-Love in Decoloniality

DAY 2: SESSIONS
After Fanon: Black Male Studies and Its Futurization of Fanonian Thought

1:30pm-2:15pm

Chair: Dr. Takeshi Morisato
University of Edinburgh (UK)
On the Edinburgh School of Africana Philosophy: An Introduction to the Epoché of Black Male Studies

DAY 2: SESSIONS
African Futurism, Pan Africanism and Islam (Roundtable)
2:15pm-3:00pm

Chair: Stephen Ibaaku Bassene

Senegalese Producer, Author, Composer and Radio Host (Senegal) & Guests

Participants: Albeta Multi-disciplinary Artist Dakar Senegal

Moustapha Mbacké Diop

(Senegal)

Africa Risen

Gerald Vreden
(Netherlands)

His Story of the World and Rise of the Mafu,
Author, Producer, Director

DAY 2: SESSIONS
Spotlight Panel: Locating African Futures (Afrofuturism & African Futurism)

2:15pm-3:00pm

Chair: Sheree Renée Thomas
Mojorhythm, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Mojorhythm, Obsidian,

and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (USA)

Dr. Sará King

Mind Heart (USA)

The Mirror of Loving Awareness

Kierstin Gray

Mind Heart (USA)

The Mirror of Loving Awareness

Dr. Ricardo Guthrie

Fisk University (USA)

"Alien Romulus and the Future of Sentient Blackness"

Dr. Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon

DAY 2: SESSIONS
Afrofuturism 2.0 and Forecasting

3:10pm-4:00pm

Chair: Dr. Lonny J. Avi Brooks
California State East-Bay (USA)

Ancestral Technologies and Imaginative Liberation: Futurizing Fanon Through Afrofuturism 2.0.

8:00 AM CT (4:00 PM EAT)

Derrick Odidi

Executive Director @ Global Affairs Development Union, Non-Profit
UN Global Co-Chair on Impact Coalition on Arts & Culture

8:15 AM CT

Rev. Andrew Rollins
Ward A.M.E. Church (Kansas, USA)
The Theology of Holy Black Rage: Afrofuturism, Black Biblical Hermeneutics, and the
Revolutionary Philosophy of Frantz Fanon

11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT)

Celia C. Peters

Filmmaker / Visual Artist — Curator, Artistic Freedom Ltd.

GOT TO BE FREE:
Film As Futurist Activism
DISCUSSION: Women of Afrofuturism

DAY 2: VIRTUAL SESSIONS

DAY 2: DINNER ON YOUR OWN

DAY 2: AFTER HOURS PARTY

Location : Artiste Du Daanu

11:00pm-4am

Hosts:

Stephen Ibaaku Bassene, Dacia Polk, Kem-Ya, Esie Mensa & Guests

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

Attire for the Day: WHITE

10:15 AM CT (8:15 AM PT)

Dr. Jasmine H. W
Sacramento State Universityade
Afro-Futures: From Oakland to Sacramento

10:30 AM CT
11:30 AM ET – Eastern US/Canada

Isaiah Johnson
Independent Scholar, Oberlin College
Dereliction or Joy? Reflections on Frantz Fanon and Digital Blackness

10:45 AM CT (3:45 PM GMT – Dakar / 4:45 PM BST – London)

Dr. Kadija George Sesay
IBSWF – International Black Speculative Writing Festival

From Colonial African Tropes to Futuristic African Concepts: The Change in Emphasis on the
Winning Stories in the Caine Prize for African Writing

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

VIRTUAL SESSIONS

11:15 AM CT (12:15 PM ET – Eastern US/Canada)

Patricia Ndombe

Graduate Student, Temple University
Features of the Classic African Aesthetic and Kariamu Welsh-Asante’s Pan-African Aesthetic in Contemporary Afrocentric Poetry within African Futurism and Afrofuturism 2.0

11:30 AM CT (7:30 PM EAT – Johannesburg)

Nhlanhla Michael Dhlamini

Graduate Student, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg

Screening of Zulu Zula

DAY 3: VIRTUAL SESSIONS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

Museum of Black Civilization

10:00 am

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

Lunch

12:30 pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

Pilgrimage to Goree Island

2:30 pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025

Libation
Dr. Kimani Nehusi, Temple University (USA)

12:30 PM CT (10:30 AM PT)

Nyame Brown
Independent Scholar, Professional Visual Artist - Art Educator, BSAM
Movement
The Onyxverse A speculative future, alternate all Black Universe

1:00 PM CT (11:00 AM PT)

Audrey Williams

Independent Scholar, Ancestral Futures
Liberatory Literary Arts: Activating Imagination Through Ancestral Archetypes as Technology
for Liberation Psychology

1:30 PM CT (11:30 AM PT)