Introduction : Africanfuturism, development, and humanities -- Afrofuturist ecolinguistics : redefining the "science" of science fiction -- Birthing the future : metissage and cultural hybridity in Francophone African women's writing -- Child soldiers : re-inscribing the human in a culture of perpetual war -- Alienation, estrangement and dreams of departure : emigration and the politics of global inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa -- 'We don't need no education' : alternative pedagogies and epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio's Sango malo (1991) and Le silence de la foret (2004) -- Paradis artificiels : the lottery of global economies in Djibril Diop Mambety's Le franc, Imunga Ivanga's Dole, and Fadika Kramo-Lancine's Wariko -- Arguing against the shame of the state : Sony Labou Tansi's ecocriticial womanism and Gaiacene planetarity -- Conclusion : toward an Afrofuturist eco-humanist philosophy of experience.