An Afrofuturist Comic

An illustrated interview with Ikem Nzeribe, in which electric cats roam our cities and Miles Davis albums play on repeat

Words: Ikem Nzeribe
Interviewer:
Florence Okoye
Artist:
Charlotte M L Bailey

Ikem Nzeribe is a photographer, hacker, and self-described “technoprophet” based in Manchester, U.K. An active attendee of local tech meetups, he is also the founder of MossCode, a digital education startup in the heart of the historic black community of Moss Side. We asked him to share his thoughts about Afrofuturism and the international diaspora for this piece.


This article forms part of How We Get To Next’s January 2016 conversations about Afrofuturism, in collaboration with AfroFutures_UK. (Image credit: Naomi Mabita.)