RELEASED: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

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Finally released 14th November 2024! With contributing authors—Aline Mwezi, Cheryl Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran, Xan van Rooyen—for their boldly hybrid chapters that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis.

I'm really proud to be included in this wonderful anthology of African SFF writers, all sharing our unique perspectives and worldviews on our writing in the speculative realm.


My essay, Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism, on world-building and cosmology referring to my two novels ("Soul Searching", and "Bones & Runes") and the Sauúti Collective.




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Table of Contents

Preface

The Structure of This Book


Chapter 1. On Afrocentric Futurisms–The Case for an Inclusive Expression

Suyi Okungbowa, Nigeria/Canada

Chapter 2. Cosmologies and Languages Building Africanfuturism

Stephen Embleton, South Africa/UK

Chapter 3. An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal

Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia

Chapter 4. The power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism

Nuzo Onoh, Nigeria/UK

Chapter 5. Black Futurisms vs. Systems of Domination

Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Kenya

Chapter 6. Faith and Fantasy–Afrofuturist and Africanfuturist Spirituality

Cheryl S. Ntumy, Ghana

Chapter 7. Queer Imaginings in Africanfuturism Inspired by African History

Xan van Rooyen, South Africa/Finland

Chapter 8. Afrofuturism and Exploring Cultural Identity as a Process of Becoming

Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Rwanda/Australia

Chapter 9. Fabulist Imaginings in Tales of the Dark and Fantastic

Tobi Ogundiran, Nigeria/USA

Chapter 10. A Vision for Direct Democracy in Yat Madit

Dilman Dila, Uganda

Chapter 11. A Gaze at Post-Colonial Themes That Re-Envision Africa

Nerine Dorman, South Africa

Chapter 12. Denouement: Autoethnography–the Self-As-Research

Eugen Bacon, Tanzania/Australia


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