![]() ![]() ![]() Looking at her novels What Sunny Saw in the Flames (2011) and Lagoon (2014. This decentering of SF foremost demands a critical engagement with its dominant, operative tropes. This paper examines the blending of Nigerian magical elements with science fiction in the writings of Nnedi Okorafor. Through the analysis of Okorafor’s novels ( Who Fears Death?, Lagoon and Binti), interviews and posts on her blog, the article explores the potentialities of Okorafor’s speculative fiction to deal with technologies, traditions, cultures, social transformations, and how these issues inform a future Africa that could possibly be an entirely new world, in which the concept of ‘West’ and ‘colonialism’ do not have any meaning.Ĭreative Commons Attribution 4. Nnedi Okorafor is a member of a growing vanguard of global SF/F authors who challenge the hegemony of SF as a purely Western genre. Okorafor felt the urgency to open this new horizon to better insist on the importance of stories and narratives profoundly rooted in the African continent, thus abandoning the Western models and canons of science fiction and creating new ways of looking towards the far future. Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. This article presents an analysis of the new category of Africanfuturism coined by the Nigerian American writer (or Naijamerican, as she defines herself) Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, after years of questions about the limits that the category of Afrofuturism has put over the receptions of her works. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women. ![]()
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