While the term ‘Afrofuturism’ has entered the global popular lexicon and is appropriately used to describe films like Black Panther, the term’s descriptive potential is necessarily culturally bound. In this article, I argue that the term is bound to an African-American context and that it cannot slip shoddily be applied to futuristic texts by African creatives in Africa. To problematise the term’s application in an African context, I provide an historical overview of futuristic speculative fictions (novels, films, and video games) from southern Africa, beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and concluding with the present.

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期货被抢先……暂时：南非科幻小说和未来主义

虽然“非洲未来主义”一词已进入全球流行词典，并被恰当地用于描述像《黑豹》这样的电影，但该词的描述潜力必然受到文化的限制。在本文中，我认为该术语与非裔美国人的语境密切相关，并且不能粗略地将其应用于非洲的非洲创意人员的未来主义文本。为了解决该术语在非洲背景下的应用问题，我提供了从 19 世纪末开始到现在结束的南部非洲未来主义投机小说（小说、电影和电子游戏）的历史概述。