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. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
James Currey,
2021.
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| Series: | African literature today ;
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Table of Contents:
- <B>EDITORIAL ARTICLE</b><br>Introduction: Science & Speculative Fiction
- What is <i>Past </i>and<i> Present . . . </i>and What is <i>Future</i>?<br>LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE and CHIMALUM NWANKWO<br><br><b>ARTICLES</b><br> 'Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world': Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in <i>Lagoon</i> and <i>Godhunter</i><br>JANELLE RODRIQUES<br><br>Southern Africannearfutures: black-tech, ambivalence, and speculation in Namwali Serpell's <i>The Old Drift</i> and Masande Ntshanga's <i>Triangulum</i><br>JEFFREY G. DODD<br><br><i>Woman of the Aeroplanes</i> and the Prediction of the Future<br>CHUKWUNONSO EZEIYOKE<br><br>Re-membering the Past: <i>Black Panther</i>, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism<br>KAYODE ODUMBONI<br><br>African Counter-utopias: from Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds<br>ERIC TSIMI<br><br>Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe's <i>Things Fall Apart </i>and <i>Arrow of God </i>as Speculative Narratives<br>CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI<br><br>Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon?<br>EDGAR NABUTANYI<br><br>Moving the Centre: Positions and Locations of African Speculative Fiction<br>JAMES ORAO<br><br><b>FEATURE ARTICLE</b><br> Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela's Something Old, Something New' and Tomi Adeaga's 'Marriage and Other Impediments'<br>GABRIEL BAMGBOSE<br><br><b>INTERVIEWS</b><br><br>With Chigozie Obioma<br>LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE<br><br>With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o <br>KADIJA GEORGE<br><br>With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu<br>KUFRE USANGA<br><br><br><b>LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</b><br> 'Poison for the Dogs' (Short Story)<br>ESHITIKA L. LUTOMIA<br><br>'Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It' (Short Story)<br>A. ONIPEDE HOLLIST <br><br>'The Song-Warrior' (Short Story)<br>REGINALD OFODILE<br><br>'Answers that will not be swallowed' (Poem)<br>'When a bitch eats her young' (Poem)<br>'This is how' (Poem)<br>'A Daughter, Coming Undone' (Poem)<br>'Crumbs' (Poem)<br> 'Not Crying' (Poem)<br>IQUO DIANAABASI<br><br>'The String of Discord' (Poem)<br>"Destiny's Dish" <br>'Tasha' (Poem)<br>AISHA UMAR<br><br>'African Children' (Poem)<br>TIJANI ABDULLAHI OLANIYI<br><br>'Nun's Twilight Call' (Poem) <br>CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI<br><br>'To Mokwugo Okoye
- A Forsaken Freedom Fighter' (Poem)<br> IFEOMA OKOYE<br><br><b>REMEMBERING ELDRED JONES (1925-2020) </b><br> Farewell, Othello's Countryman<br>NIYI OSUNDARE<br><br>Professor Eldred Jones: A Humanist and Critic<br>ELIZABETH I.A. KAMARA<br><br><b>TRIBUTE</b><br>Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination<br>AUSTINE AMANZE AKPUDA <br><br><br><b>REVIEWS</b><br> Sakui Malakpa, <i>Black Professor, White University</i><br>OBI NWAKANMA<br><br>Daria Tunca (ed), <i>Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie </i><br>KATE HARLIN <br><br>Ernest Emenyonu, <i>The Literary History of the Igbo Novel</i>: <i>African Literature in African Languages</i><br>KUFRE USANGA <br><br>Jack Mapanje, <i>Greetings from Grandpa</i><br>OLUFEMI DUNMADE <br><br>Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), <i>Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora</i><br>INI UKO