Afro-Surrealism is a school of art and literature. In 1974, Amiri Baraka used the term to interpret the work of Henry Dumas.D. Scot Miller 2009 wrote his famous Afro-surreal Manifesto in which he says, "Afro-Surrealism sees that all 'others' who create from their actual, lived experience are surrealist..." The manifesto outlines Afro-Surrealism. from Surrealism and Afro-Futurism. The manifesto lists ten tenets that Afro-Surrealism follows including how "Afro-Surrealists restore the cult of the past," and how "Afro-Surreal presupposes that beyond this visible world, there is an invisible world striving to manifest, and it is our job to uncover it." Movement is In order to understand the experiences of African-Americans there has to be a blunt telling of their livelihoods.