Bill Campbell is the author of several science-fiction novels and the founder of Rosarium Publishing. I had the chance recently to interview him for online magazine, Media Diversified, which, for me, was just all kinds of fun. We talk everything from writing, to creativity, to his thoughts on science-fiction, afrofuturism, popular culture and the media. It was a great conversation… Continue reading ‘Popular Culture is No Longer a Marketplace of ideas’: An Interview with American Novelist, Bill Campbell
Author: Micah Yongo
Author. Thinker. Speaker. Dreamer. Ever curious. Always growing.
What is Afrofuturism
You need only cast a quick glance over the considerable career of someone like Isaac Asimov to note the prescient and directive power of science-fiction. The man who popularised the idea of robotics in his classic I, Robot and, in his 1964 article, Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014, foresaw everything from kitchen top coffee makers and microwave meals… Continue reading What is Afrofuturism
Doing the Right Thing: Film & TV in a Biased World
‘You know, where I come from, there are a lot of different ways of being black.’ ‘Well, then you one lucky black man. But see, blood, ‘bout now, where you come from ain’t where you at… Roun’ here, they only got the one way of being black, and sooner or later that’s the black you… Continue reading Doing the Right Thing: Film & TV in a Biased World
Why Does Art Matter?
Cue the credits, then the music, and our numbed seats rise slowly in unison, and a room of strangers together arch their spines, stretch their legs, and spread their arms, as though for flight, as the cosy dimness finally lifts and ushers us back to reality with the sated sigh of having been, for a… Continue reading Why Does Art Matter?
Between
There are these moments where It feels as though breath is caught, Like the road runner’s old adversary, You’ve found the nothing beneath your heels, And you wonder if you ran too far, Beyond lore's solid bluff, To tread in angels' steps Until you reach home.
Micah Yongo 