Bryson Desiderio Wyatt
Graphic Designer - Branding Publication UI/UX
FUTURES PAST
Afrofuturism · Abstract Design · Visual Identity
"Futures Past: Afrofuturist Portraits of African Revolutionary Leaders" centers five figures who left undeniable marks on African history and culture. Patrice Lumumba gave everything to Congolese independence, his life a testament to resistance that refused to bend. Thomas Sankara rewrote what revolution could look like: grounded, uncompromising, and deeply committed to women's liberation and a free Africa. Nelson Mandela needs no introduction, but his story remains what it always was, a decades-long refusal to accept a world built on racial hierarchy.
Jomo Kenyatta anchored Kenya's push for independence in something deeper than politics: a reclamation of identity and belonging. And then there's Nnedi Okorafor, a contemporary voice whose fiction imagines African futures, and builds them, pulling history and possibility into the same breath.
Together, their portraits and collages go beyond likeness. Each one is an argument for what these figures meant, what they changed, and what they might still mean in a world reimagined through an Afrofuturist lens.