The practice of anticipation and futures literacy in postcolonial West Africa requires a conceptual framework capable of capturing and articulating recurrent phenomena from the past in the region’s postcolonial present-present. For this purpose, this article theorizes and operationalizes a framework termed the past futures framework (PFF). In this article, past futures are defined as final versions of anticipations that have completely manifested in the present-present, but now exist in the past. The theorization of the PFF builds on the combination of some heuristic principles of historical time, the Futures Literacy Framework (FLF) and the Discipline of Anticipation (DOA). Further, the operationalization of the past futures framework is achieved using the case study of Biafran secessionism in West Africa. Finally, the article argues that a core novelty of the past futures framework lies in its use for revisiting and decolonizing the present, with the aim of mitigating inattentional blindness in foresight practices that sustains conditions for the continual recurrence of past phenomena in the present-present within the region of West Africa.

后殖民西非的预期和未来素养的实践需要一个概念框架，能够捕捉和阐明该地区后殖民现在和现在的过去反复出现的现象。为此，本文对称为过去期货框架 (PFF)的框架进行了理论化和操作。在本文中，过去的未来被定义为完全体现在现在-现在但现在存在于过去的预期的最终版本。PFF 的理论建立在历史时间的一些启发式原则、期货素养框架 (FLF) 和预期纪律 (DOA) 的结合之上。此外，该项目的运作过去的未来框架是通过西非比夫拉分离主义的案例研究实现的。最后，文章认为，过去未来框架的核心新颖之处在于它用于重新审视和非殖民化现在，目的是减轻前瞻实践中的疏忽失明，这些实践维持了过去现象在现在和现在不断重现的条件。在西非地区。