Futuristic themes and science fiction in Modern African literature / Dike Okoro -- Animate materiality, space, and identity in African women science fiction / Utitofon Inyang -- A Narrative of Resistance in the face of stasis / Raimi Gbadamosi -- The Paradox of a Great Teacher who Objects to Teaching: Elechi Amadi / Joe Ushie -- The Poet as Philosopher / Dike Okoro -- The Metaphor of Change in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman / Dipo Kalejaiye -- The Art of Writing and the Writer's World / A Conversation between Lauren Beukes and Dike Okoro -- Futuristic themes in Modern African poetry / Dike Okoro -- Mazisi Kunene and the New African Movement / Lupenga Mphande -- The Greatness of Mazisi Kunene and the Influence of Zulu Cosmology / A Conversation between Ntongela Masilela and Dike Okoro -- Visual dissidence and postcolonial Tunisian films / Nouri Gana -- My Writing, My Influences! A Niger Delta Writer's Reflection on Arts, Politics, and Society / A Conversation between Tanure Ojaide and Dike Okoro -- African Fiction and the Prison Experience / An Interview with Benjamin Kwakye -- Afrobeat Poetry and the African Imagination / A Conversation between Ikwunga Wonodi and Dike Okoro -- The Story of Akorshi Litong Mystical Dance: A Bette-Bendi Cultural Production / A Conversation between Joe Ushie and Dike Okoro -- A Conversation between Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and Dike Okoro -- A Conversation between Bruce Onobrakeya and Dike Okoro: Conclusion.
Summary:
"This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa has always reflected on themes of futurism, across diverse forms of speculative writing (including science fiction), images, spirituality, myth, magical realism, the supernatural, performance and other forms of oral resources. This book reflects on themes of African futurism across a range of literary and artistic works, also investigating how problems such as racism, sexism, social injustice and postcolonialism are reflected in these narratives. Chapters cover authors, artists, movements, and performers such Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Elechi Amadi, Mazisi Kunene, Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren Beukes, Leslie Nneka Arimah, and the New African Movement. The book also includes a range of original interviews with prominent authors and artists, including Tanure Ojaide, Lauren Beukes, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Benjamin Kwakye, Ntongela Masilela and Bruce Onobrakpeya. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of African literature, philosophy, culture and politics"-- Provided by publisher.
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