ALT 39 [EPUB ebook] 
Speculative & Science Fiction

Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.


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 Ngũgĩ 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.


This volume also includes a Literary Supplement.


Guest Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO (Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria).


Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint)

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida).

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EDITORIAL ARTICLE

Introduction: Science & Speculative Fiction – What is
Past and
Present . . . and What is
Future?

LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE and 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 and
Godhunter

JANELLE RODRIQUES


Southern Africannearfutures: black-tech, ambivalence, and speculation in Namwali Serpell’s
The Old Drift and Masande Ntshanga’s
Triangulum

JEFFREY G. DODD


Woman of the Aeroplanes and the Prediction of the Future

CHUKWUNONSO EZEIYOKE


Re-membering the Past:
Black Panther, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism

KAYODE ODUMBONI


African Counter-utopias: from Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds

ERIC TSIMI


Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe’s
Things Fall Apart and
Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives

CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI


Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon?

EDGAR NABUTANYI


Moving the Centre: Positions and Locations of African Speculative Fiction

JAMES ORAO


FEATURE ARTICLE

Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela’s Something Old, Something New’ and Tomi Adeaga’s ‘Marriage and Other Impediments’

GABRIEL BAMGBOSE


INTERVIEWS


With Chigozie Obioma

LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE


With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

KADIJA GEORGE


With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu

KUFRE USANGA



LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘Poison for the Dogs’ (Short Story)

ESHITIKA L. LUTOMIA


‘Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It’ (Short Story)

A. ONIPEDE HOLLIST


‘The Song-Warrior’ (Short Story)

REGINALD OFODILE


‘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)

IQUO DIANAABASI


‘The String of Discord’ (Poem)

‘Destiny’s Dish’

‘Tasha’ (Poem)

AISHA UMAR


‘African Children’ (Poem)

TIJANI ABDULLAHI OLANIYI


‘Nun’s Twilight Call’ (Poem)

CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI


‘To Mokwugo Okoye – A Forsaken Freedom Fighter’ (Poem)

IFEOMA OKOYE


REMEMBERING ELDRED JONES (1925-2020)

Farewell, Othello’s Countryman

NIYI OSUNDARE


Professor Eldred Jones: A Humanist and Critic

ELIZABETH I.A. KAMARA


TRIBUTE

Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination

AUSTINE AMANZE AKPUDA



REVIEWS

Sakui Malakpa,
Black Professor, White University

OBI NWAKANMA


Daria Tunca (ed),
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

KATE HARLIN


Ernest Emenyonu,
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel:
African Literature in African Languages

KUFRE USANGA


Jack Mapanje,
Greetings from Grandpa

OLUFEMI DUNMADE


Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds),
Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora

INI UKO

关于作者

CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain.