Origins of Afrofuturism - Black Science Fiction

Early examples of Afrofuturism include science fiction by black authors. In 1902, for example, Pauline Hopkins wrote a novel about a society in Ethopia with advanced technology. Sociologist W.E.B. Dubois' story The Comet uses what is now a common motif in science fiction, the apocalyptic event in which civilization is destroyed, to tell a tell about race in the aftermath. George Schuyler, a noted black writer, published several works of speculative fiction in the 1930s, which included characters based on real-life black scientist E.E. Just and the first female black pilot, Bessie Coleman.