Professor Priscilla Layne has been working on her manuscript for her second book “Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism” this Fall 2018 semester in Germany. While doing so, she gave a lecture in American Academy in Berlin, Germany about “Afrofuturist Challenges to Humanism”. Layne’s talk presented the writings of British author, publicist, and activist Sharon Dodua Otoo, winner of the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, in light of Afro-German literature. This lecture was written about in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.