Nationwide — The US of Africa is a futuristic new novel set within the yr 2525, when Africa is united as one nation with the world’s strongest economic system and navy. The novel has been launched on Kickstarter by its creator, Milton Allimadi, a journalist and PhD pupil in historical past who’s searching for your help to finish the undertaking.
Allimadi launched a profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign in 2023 for his ebook, ADWA: Princess Taytu & Emperor Menelik in Love & Battle. He’s in search of help on Kickstarter for this new undertaking, which will likely be illustrated by Obedirwoth, the identical artist who labored on ADWA.
The setting of this Afrofuturist story, The US of Africa, is 500 years from now. Attributable to environmental and climatic catastrophes brought on by industrial manufacturing manufacturing, the Earth has change into extraordinarily scorching. Because of this, circumstances for longer human survival now favor melanated folks. The extra melanated you’re, the longer your life expectancy. Melanin-rich folks just like the “Sudan-Black” or “Senegal-Black” sorts dwell on common to 100 to 110 years previous.
In Allimadi’s novel, The US of Africa, people who find themselves melanin-deficient dwell on common 35 to 40 years.
“Now we have change into too accustomed to the demonization of melanin, traditionally and in our time,” says Allimadi, creator of The US of Africa. “I would like folks to assume outdoors the field. To keep in mind that with out melanin, no human beings would exist; Africans, Europeans, Asians, or Latinos.”
All human beings originate from Africa, and all of them have been initially melanated, and that’s how they survived the tropical warmth. A few of these early ancestors migrated to different components of the world, then, over a interval lasting tens of 1000’s of years, by means of adaptation to new climatic and environmental circumstances, took on new options and pores and skin tones. They gave delivery to all the opposite “races” of the world.
“So I would like folks to consider how absurd modern racism actually is, since now we have the identical ancestral dad and mom,” Allimadi says. “I flipped the script, so to talk.”
In The US of Africa, melanin is well known even by individuals who as soon as resented “blackness.” In international locations like India, everybody now desires to the touch the richly melanated “untouchables” most of whom migrate to Africa to take up their computerized citizenship.
In international locations that have been as soon as European-majority nations, similar to the US, the U.Okay., France, Germany, and others, the governments now favor melanated folks over non-melanated ones who at the moment are considered much less economically productive. The funding within the training, healthcare, and housing of less-melanated folks is uncared for. They now haven’t any entry to financing or credit score.
Unemployment and crime rise in European-majority neighborhoods. Quickly, these dynamics, coupled with “robust on crime” insurance policies, led to mass incarceration of the less-melanated communities. European folks ultimately comprise greater than 90 % of the jail populations in Western international locations. European folks change into the brand new social underclass.
In the meantime, in Africa, the continent has now been united into one nation, with the world’s strongest economic system and a strong navy beneath a unified command.
With its dominant international place, Africa is ready to demand that the U.S. authorities pay reparations to descendants of Africans who have been enslaved in the US; that France pay reparations to Haitians; that Britain pay reparations to descendants of Africans enslaved within the Caribbean; and that European nations pay reparations for colonialism in Africa.
Allimadi’s kickstarter marketing campaign contains a number of pattern chapters from The US of Africa, together with ones about: how common uprisings everywhere in the continent after the US of America threatened Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore led to the formation of the US of Africa; a gathering between an American president who traveled to Africa to beg for overseas help; and, police brutality in opposition to European American youths.
Gone are the times when outdoors powers invaded and plundered Africa earlier than unification. Gone are the times similar to 1960, when Belgium invaded newly-independent Congo and, working with the CIA, overthrew prime minister Patrice Lumumba and had him murdered in 1961.
Gone are the times, similar to 2011, when, led by the US and France, NATO invaded Libya after its chief Qaddafi was about to launch a brand new African foreign money backed by gold with the intention to finish dependency on the US greenback and Euros. Qaddafi was killed throughout the invasion, and Libya was destroyed.
Gone are the times of exploitation of Africa’s assets by Western international locations, Japan, and China.
In The US of Africa, the nation is lastly ready to make use of its wealthy mineral and pure assets, mixed with its human and mental capital, to create wealth and prosperity in Africa for Africans.
All African descendants, wherever they’re on the planet, are eligible for computerized citizenship the minute they step on African soil.
“Whereas the premise could also be fictional, the potential empowerment of African folks by means of the formation of a United States of Africa may be very actual,” Allimadi concludes.
In the long run, increasingly more folks understand the facility and demanding significance of melanin and the absurdity of anti-Black racism.
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