Taking the form of an immersive digitally rendered environment, Afrogenesis is a reimagining of three different short stories from Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2001), A Science-Fiction anthology featuring work by black writers. Afrogenesis combines these separate tales into one world, interpreting them via augmented reality.

The user is transported onto a spaceship with a jungle atmosphere and encounters sentinels called Watchers (based on Twice, At Once, Separated by Linda Addison) witnesses the all encompassing flames of the Soucouyant (Nalo Hopkinson’s Greedy Choke Puppy) and may spot a mystery floating statue holding a kalimba (Charles R. Saunders’ Gimmile’s Songs).

Sarah Ejionye is a London based photographer, filmmaker and CGI artist who recently graduated from a BA in Fashion Photography at the London College of Fashion. Being of Nigerian descent, she often focuses on the lives, culture and voices of women of colour in her photographs and films.

Ejionye is also a member of Riot Soup, an art collective that seeks to encourage diversity and representation in the arts.