>>Current science fiction is best understood as comedy—ya know, Africa leading a new technological revolution, stuff like that... ;-)
Isn’t Afrofuturism a 50 year genre?
Sun Ra preached it.
the Disney Black Panther movie embraced it.
Afrofuturism has existed in occasional works for a long time—but in modern science fiction it has turned into a ridiculous mantra.
I think we all have a pretty good idea what the future of Africa looks like—and it will not be pretty.
btw I am currently reading one of the classics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
The book is available online here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Last_and_First_Men.pdf
It is interesting that the Wikipedia editors have not chosen to attack it and Amazon has not tried to ban it—at some point some leftist professor will make a career out of calling it racist/sexist etc....