Counter Culture

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band who formed in Birmingham, England in December 1978. The band has had over 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart and has had significant worldwide success. They were nominated four times for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, and in 1984, they were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. Over the course of their career, UB40 have sold over 70 million albums globally. The initial line-up of the band was ethnically varied, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, and Yemeni ancestry.

Afrofuturism is a contemporary aesthetic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of history that investigates the growing convergence between African diaspora culture and technology. Afrofuturism explores themes and issues of the African diaspora through technoculture and speculative fiction, including a variety of mediums and artists that have a common interest in imagining black futures based on Afro-diasporic experiences. While science fiction is most usually connected with Afrofuturism, it may also refer to other speculative genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and magic realism.