Afro-Futurism Creative Writing

At the cockcrow, Shani is up and rolling. She knows she is the mother of the house and every role and duty revolve around her or at least her effort is needed. Peko and Leo need to be woken up, prepared, served tea and seen off to a nearby village school. Leo is the youngest and a boy who feels like he should be the eldest child in the family, and that is exactly what the Koko feels and wants for his family. Though he is a quiet man, he does complain a lot about how come Shani could only give him one child. Shani loves both her children and prefers to follow nature's way to define things in her family; she usually thinks aloud "a child is a child and we should always accept God's plans on us." Koko sometimes sleeps longer than expected but today he has to wake up a little bit earlier, at least there is that scheduled village meeting meant for the heads of the families to discuss the initiation of another culture. Everyone calls it a western way of living that is meant to disrupt and undermine the normal way of living.

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Koko is the head of the father and the head of the family, he calls the shots around, just like any other man in the village. However, so he greatly supports his family in all ways he can by providing food and shelter at the same time ensures his children go to school even though he does not understand much of its benefits. He wanted his son "his only child" as he puts it, to be an herbalist just like his late father who was a renowned village herbalist back in the days in the foreign lands. Peko according to his father can do whatever she wants including going to the so-called school, which he knows is not going to benefit her life and that of the family in any way. Shani does not think much about the future but in the back of her mind, she wants a change of things. She stares up the sky and thinks there is space. She wants a society where everyone and everything matters, a society where women can express their feeling and mind and it makes an impression.

Peko takes school seriously; she rises earlier in the morning with her mother while Leo is fast asleep and helps in the womanly chores of the house. She is an obedient, intelligent and very hard working young girl, just like her mother. Last week her local teacher came to visit her father and talked about her schoolwork, her great abilities in classwork and how she needs to be given more time to study rather than engaging in family chores something her father rubbished as nonsense and against the cultural settings. Shani took the concerns seriously and secretly set some time for her daughter who had great interests of changing the world, "its great my daughter, I know you are becoming a leader tomorrow because change is here." "Yes mother, I want to know more about the new thing called technology and make one of my own." Shani laughs off, "my sweet daughter I do not think so," "but you are just seven years old and that is already too much for you to know." Technology is all she wanted to do and know more about; ironically, it is the issue of contention that the village elders are strongly opposing its introduction into the local community citing westernization in it.

"I am going to the village meeting, just make sure the kids have something to eat in the evening," "I might run late." "But I have nothing to give them today." "Try to find a solution; you are the woman." After the argument between the mother and father, Shani grudgingly gives in and embarks on her duties to see her family is attended to especially her two children. It's evening already and the children are back from school, they both look hungry, but Leo seems more overwhelmed. They both scramble for some leftovers and Leo seems to win the battle with the use of his manly strength and of Couse a sense of entitlement inscribed in him by his father, which advocates for less or no regard at all to women. The Koko returns from the famous and controversial meeting, looking angry and removed. He sits down and starts to talk to himself, "they want to abolish our traditions and the cultures of our forefathers," "Hamm, they can't make it." That was a clear sign that the meeting about technology has gone through and technology or the western culture was going to be introduced in the village. Peko jumped up hysterically and shouted "Yeees." Her father looked at her and said, "I know you are part of them, or you can go and join them."

It did not take long before schools were introduced to the new ways of doing things and the whole village was slowly getting the light. Women and girls were overjoyed, some boys were thrilled too, but most men did not look happy. Peko always made it to the top of her class and when her school was given a chance to produce one student to represent the school at the technology summit, she was the only option. Five years later, she was this girl who had received a fully sponsored scholarship to study abroad and the whole village had pride in her, except few men who feel some boy should have taken her place.

More girls are taking over in the village especially in education, for this has proved to be the only way to overcome social and cultural setbacks. Three years is not long, and Peko is here looking more aware and knowledgeable than any other boy or man in the whole village. So domineering in the house, not even the Koko can say much, for sure change was overdue. Peko is only one week in the village and light is seen from a distance, strong men are retreating from their cultural cocoons. Peko has just shocked them by planning to build an artificial person who can perform all womanly chores and help in fly people around the village, "What!.." One prominent villager called Zuri exclaimed. While women are anxious, men are busy thinking how to stop the already dominating female species.

The first artificial human came into being as a woman, big and strong with large wings. At first, everyone was scared but now eager. Major tasks now performed by 'other people' and people now flying everywhere over the village. Everyone is excited and many men have to be woken from their dream, the day has come and light is everywhere. For sure living in this age where women are the ones changing the world is amazing. One scared old man had to fly around at least he has promised to try once before he dies, "What?" "This is crazy I thought its gonna take me to my grave." Keko sits somewhere in the glassy corner, pondering the next move, "of course there has to be another world that has to be visited soon."