Imaginaire afrotechnologique et décolonisation de l'espace dans la creation artistique française contemporaine

The posthumanist thought emerged in an environment marked by the ideology of industrial progress, encouraged by the European modernity and colonialism. Thus, the imaginary of space colonization, future and science fiction, was mainly shaped from a Eurocentric point of view. In the 1970s, the Afrofuturist movement reappropriated these representations and politicized the relationship to the outer space, reinscribing an Afrodescendent origin, in which displacement and migration echoed a recent past. The "reconquest" of space from the African point of view engages a kind of astro-technological decolonization: the contemporary artists of the French scene Kapwani Kiwanga and Josèfa Ntjam embody in an emblematic way the stakes of power, knowledge and projection in the future staged in science fiction narratives.