Architecture as Translation: Africanfuturism in Folklore, Film, and Speculative Art

"Take your dream suppressants." The opening line in Wanuri Kahiū's Pumzi , directed at our protagonist Asha, enforces the order of severing ties with hopeful futures and ancestral memories in pasts shared to compel her focus on the perpetual present in the Maitu Community's heterotopia of an enclave. The bird's-eye view shot of the Maitu reveals a sterile, drone-like structure with a panoptic sphe