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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction – 2021

By John Folk-Williams

Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, reprints 29 gripping stories that test the limits of everyday reality. As diverse as the stories are, most of them push their characters across boundaries between this world and the spirit world, between past and present, human and robot, the living and the […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Short Fiction Tagged With: Africa, Africanfuturism, alternate worlds, ancestors, robots, self-worth, sentient beings, spirits

Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus

By John Folk-Williams

The remarkable Sweep of Stars, first volume of the Astra Black trilogy by Maurice Broaddus, begins with a naming ceremony, one that draws together the community and traditions of Muungano, the new civilization in space fought for by people of Africa and its diaspora. And what a civilization it is – based on the Moon, […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Africanfuturism, colonialism, community, consensus, individuality, leadership, Maurice Broaddus, poetry, power, song

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

From the brilliant opening of Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control, when we meet the confident Sankofa, just fourteen, walking a road in rural Ghana (“Small swift steps made with small swift feet”) the hints of her extraordinary power are everywhere. She is a subject of rumor, people hide from her approach, she wears adult clothes though […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien technology, corporate dystopia, legend, Nnedi Okorafor, power, technology

City in Time: Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Redemption

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Tade Thompson begins Rosewater Redemption, the concluding volume of his Wormwood trilogy, with a kind of fugue, an almost musical prelude in which the major characters re-enter the story, each changed by what has gone before. We see Rosewater in all its multiplicity, through the eyes of each character, as a city in time, experienced […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, city, consciousness, memory, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, time

SciFiMonth: Colonizing the Mind in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Insurrection

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

With #SciFiMonth getting underway, and a certain election holding our fates in the balance, my reading has turned to more political scifi themes, or maybe I’m just more attuned than ever to that dimension of so many recent books. I’m in the midst of Tade Thompson’s Wormwood trilogy and find it more engrossing with every […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, colonialism, memory, mind, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

Alien Cells in Mind: Rosewater by Tade Thompson

By John Folk-Williams

Alien Cells in Mind Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson, a psychiatrist who is also a prolific writer, has created an original interpretation of a classic science fiction theme in his Rosewater, the opening novel in the Wormwood trilogy – that of first contact on earth as alien cells enter human minds across the world. An alien mass hits the earth in Hyde […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, consciousness, first contact, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

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