Author: Descant Deb

Coming to America is the very definition of Afrofuturism. It remained unmatched for 30 years until the release of those first-look Black Panther trailers. Reflecting on the high production values and cinematic scope of four of the biggest and best science fiction and fantasy television series’ available in the UK on streaming platforms since late 2016, we see a limited vision of character not remediable by expensive CGI or lightning-fast editing, if you look closer….

Ever since Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America (1988), the African Diaspora has yearned for...