![]() And yet the stories that the world tells itself about this future are decidedly not African - or at least not of a prosperous, plausible future Africa (Pereira et al. The future is African: by 2100 one in three people are projected to be from the African continent (Council on Foreign Relations 2020). Keywords: Africanfuturism SDGs nature futures science fiction futures ecosystems services relational value Nature Futures Framework. ![]() Facing the Strategic Sublime: Scenario Planning as Gothic Narrative. Citation: Lavery, Charne, Laura Pereira, Bwalya Chibwe, Nedine Moonsamy, Chinelo Onwaulu, Naomi Terry.Review: This article underwent editorial review from three editors.This article explores a sample of Africanfuturist texts to highlight both their diversity and to draw out some significant commonalities. Africanfuturist science fiction can provide visions of the future which embody the priorities and the lived experience of their African authors. This article explores the potential for Africanfuturist science fiction to address these gaps in the NFF construct. While there are many narratives and practices focused on valuing Nature-for-Society, there are fewer which value Nature-as-Culture or Nature-for-Nature. The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) offers high-level guidance for imagining nature futures that acknowledge the complex and interconnected values of nature. How we imagine the future shapes what and how we value, and the decisions we make in the present. ![]() There is also now growing interest in futures that value nature in its own right, independent of the many benefits that nature provides to humans. It is widely recognised that nature must be valued in ways that go beyond narrow economic perspectives, and accommodate the interconnected social, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual dimensions of nature. ġ Department of English, University of Pretoria, South AfricaĢ WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africaģ Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaĤ Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Swedenĥ Independent author and editor of African speculative fiction Charne Lavery, Laura Pereira, Bwalya Chibwe, Nedine Moonsamy, Chinelo Onwaulu, Naomi Terry. ![]()
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