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Introduction: African Science Fiction

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Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

Abstract

As recently as 2009, the Nigerian-American writer, Nnedi Okorafor could ask in a blogpost, "Is Africa ready for science fiction?" 1 She followed this up in 2014 with an equally provocative statement: "African science fiction is still alien." 2 Neither the question nor the statement represented her own convictions; instead they were intended as conceits to instigate conversation about a larger concern, namely, the place of science fiction in African literature and cinema.This special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (PLI) on African science fiction extends that conversation with studies of the work of Okorafor herself, but also that of Lauren Beukes, Kojo Laing, Frances Bodomo, and Deji Bryce Olukotun, among others

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