Speculative & Science Fiction:
Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ng?g? wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-à-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts |
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| adam_text | Contents Notes on Contributors xi INTRODUCTION Speculative Science Fiction: What is Past Present... What is Future? 1 Louisa Uchum Egbunike Chimalum Nwankwo ARTICLES ‘Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world’: Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon Godhunter 14 Janelle Rodriques Southern Africannearfutures: Black-tech, Ambivalence, Speculation in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum Jeffrey G. Dodd 31 Woman of the Aeroplanes the Prediction of the Future 43 Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism 57 Kayode Odumboni African Counter-utopias: From Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds 71 Éric Essono Tsimi Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives 83 Clara Ijeoma Osuji Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon? 95 Edgar Nabutanyi
viii Contents Moving the Centre: Positions Locations of African Speculative Fiction 111 James Orao FEATURED ARTICLE Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela’s ‘Something Old, Something New’ Tomi Adeaga’s ‘Marriage and Other Impediments’ 126 Gabriel Bámgbósé INTERVIEWS With Chigozie Obioma 140 Louisa Uchum Egbunike With Ngûgï wa Thiong’o 150 Kadija Sesay With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu 156 Kufre Usanga LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Poison for the Dogs’ (Short Story) Eshitika L. Kutomia 162 ‘Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It’(Short Story) A. Onipede Hollist 173 ‘The Song-Warrior’ (Short Story) 183 Reginald Ofodile SIX POEMS ‘Answers that will not be swallowed’ (Poem) ‘When a bitch eats her young’ (Poem) ‘This is how’ (Poem) ‘A Daughter, Coming Undone’ (Poem) ‘Crumbs’ (Poem) ‘Not Crying’ (Poem) 192 193 194 195 196 197 Iquo Diana Abasi THREE POEMS ‘The String of Discord’ (Poem) ‘Destiny’s Dish’ (Poem) 199 200
Contents ‘Tasha’ (Poem) ix 200 Aisha Umar ‘African Children’ (Poem) 202 Tijani Abdullahi Olaniyi ‘Nun’s Twilight Call’ (Poem) 204 Clara Ijeoma Osuji ‘To Mokwugo Okoye - A Forsaken Freedom Fighter’ (Poem) 206 Ifeoma Okoye TRIBUTES Remembering Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925-21 March 2020): Farewell, Othello’s Countryman 210 Niyi Osundare Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones: A Humanist Critic Elizabeth L.A. Kamara Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination 214 223 Austine Amanze Akpuda REVIEWS Sakui Malakpa, Black Professor, White University 238 Obi Nwakanma Daria Tunca (ed.), Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 243 Kate Harlin Ernest Emenyonu, The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages 248 Kufre Usanga Jack Mapanje, Greetings from Grandpa 251 Olufemi Dunmade Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora 254 Iniobong Uko
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Contents Notes on Contributors xi INTRODUCTION Speculative Science Fiction: What is Past Present. What is Future? 1 Louisa Uchum Egbunike Chimalum Nwankwo ARTICLES ‘Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world’: Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon Godhunter 14 Janelle Rodriques Southern Africannearfutures: Black-tech, Ambivalence, Speculation in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum Jeffrey G. Dodd 31 Woman of the Aeroplanes the Prediction of the Future 43 Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism 57 Kayode Odumboni African Counter-utopias: From Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds 71 Éric Essono Tsimi Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives 83 Clara Ijeoma Osuji Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon? 95 Edgar Nabutanyi
viii Contents Moving the Centre: Positions Locations of African Speculative Fiction 111 James Orao FEATURED ARTICLE Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela’s ‘Something Old, Something New’ Tomi Adeaga’s ‘Marriage and Other Impediments’ 126 Gabriel Bámgbósé INTERVIEWS With Chigozie Obioma 140 Louisa Uchum Egbunike With Ngûgï wa Thiong’o 150 Kadija Sesay With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu 156 Kufre Usanga LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Poison for the Dogs’ (Short Story) Eshitika L. Kutomia 162 ‘Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It’(Short Story) A. Onipede Hollist 173 ‘The Song-Warrior’ (Short Story) 183 Reginald Ofodile SIX POEMS ‘Answers that will not be swallowed’ (Poem) ‘When a bitch eats her young’ (Poem) ‘This is how’ (Poem) ‘A Daughter, Coming Undone’ (Poem) ‘Crumbs’ (Poem) ‘Not Crying’ (Poem) 192 193 194 195 196 197 Iquo Diana Abasi THREE POEMS ‘The String of Discord’ (Poem) ‘Destiny’s Dish’ (Poem) 199 200
Contents ‘Tasha’ (Poem) ix 200 Aisha Umar ‘African Children’ (Poem) 202 Tijani Abdullahi Olaniyi ‘Nun’s Twilight Call’ (Poem) 204 Clara Ijeoma Osuji ‘To Mokwugo Okoye - A Forsaken Freedom Fighter’ (Poem) 206 Ifeoma Okoye TRIBUTES Remembering Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925-21 March 2020): Farewell, Othello’s Countryman 210 Niyi Osundare Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones: A Humanist Critic Elizabeth L.A. Kamara Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination 214 223 Austine Amanze Akpuda REVIEWS Sakui Malakpa, Black Professor, White University 238 Obi Nwakanma Daria Tunca (ed.), Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 243 Kate Harlin Ernest Emenyonu, The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages 248 Kufre Usanga Jack Mapanje, Greetings from Grandpa 251 Olufemi Dunmade Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora 254 Iniobong Uko |
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