Hay, Jonathan2019-12-132019-12-132019-09-29Hay, J. (2019). Afrofuturism in clipping.’s Splendor & Misery. Vector, 289.NAhttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/622903A countercultural movement characterised by a dynamic understanding of the narrative authority held by texts, Afrofuturism rewrites African culture in a speculative vein, granting African and Afrodiasporic peoples a culturally empowered means of writing their own future. This article examines the manner by which clipping.'s 2016 album Splendor & Misery-a conceptual hip-hop space opera-freely enlists and reclaims texts from the African cultural tradition in order to manifest its Afrofuturist agenda. The process by which Afrofuturism reclaims and rewrites culture is paralleled within Splendor & Misery through the literary device of mise en abyme; just as the album itself does, its central protagonist rewrites narratives of African cultures and traditions in an act of counterculture.enhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/AfrofuturismCultural traditionAfricaArticleVector