Divine Consciousness

The quest for freedom and equality has been a much broader and longer journey than most people realize given it is still not achieved after 495 years!Divine Consciousness: From a Dystopian Diaspora to Afrofuturism takes readers on a journey from a point in time when the African Diaspora was just beginning to a time yet to be determined-the future. For 340 years Black people were the Slave-Industrial Complex. We were subjected to absolute and unspeakable horror brutality and oppression with no abatement and for the next 155 years subjugated by the Black Codes Jim Crow laws lynchings voter disenfranchisement oppression police brutality mass incarceration injustice and inequality; executed and maintained by a system of white supremacy. I contend that such experiences and existence are dystopian. I set-forth several analogies to dystopian films and literature and I provide an in-depth analysis of our experiences and how and why we are in a dystopian state. As in some dystopian films mostly science-fiction there is often a way out but not always for everyone. But for this current dystopian reality Black people desperately need to find a way out. In the book I discuss several foundational references namely Afrocentricity and ancestral memories that are key to our journey out of this dystopia and to Afrofuturism. However we need first to understand that Afrofuturism is not music literature art or film exclusively. And neither is it rooted in mysticism or myth or only found in Wakanda. In Divine Consciousness From a Dystopian Diaspora to Afrofuturism I will take you B(l)ack to the future B(l)ack and forward and share how Afrofuturism is real and attainable. The journey to Afrofuturism however requires self-affirmation self-actualization and self-determination. It also requires a transformation and elevation of Black collective consciousness. Then and only then will you ascend to a divine consciousness-if you choose.