Contents

pp vii-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

INTRODUCTION: Speculative & Science Fiction: What is Past& Present … & What is Future?

pp 1-12

ARTICLES

pp 13-13

‘Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in theworld’: Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon& Godhunter

pp 14-30

Southern Africannearfutures: Black-tech, Ambivalence, &Speculation in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift & MasandeNtshanga’s Triangulum

pp 31-42

Woman of the Aeroplanes & the Prediction of theFuture

pp 43-56

Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, & theCultural Politics of Africanfuturism

pp 57-70

African Counter-utopias: From Counter-narratives to thePresentification of Alternative Worlds

pp 71-82

Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe’s Things FallApart & Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives

pp 83-94

Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or anEmerging Canon?

pp 95-110

Moving the Centre: Positions & Locations of AfricanSpeculative Fiction

pp 111-124

FEATURED ARTICLE

pp 125-125

Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of DecolonialLove in Leila Aboulela’s ‘Something Old, Something New’ & TomiAdeaga’s ‘Marriage and Other Impediments’

pp 126-138

INTERVIEWS

pp 139-139

With Chigozie Obioma

pp 140-149

With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

pp 150-155

With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu

pp 156-160

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

pp 161-161

‘Poison for the Dogs’ (Short Story)

pp 162-172

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

pp 173-182

‘The Song-Warrior’ (Short Story)

pp 183-191

SIX POEMS: ‘Answers that will not be swallowed’ (Poem)

pp 192-193

‘When a bitch eats her young’ (Poem)

pp 193-194

‘This is how’ (Poem)

pp 194-195

‘A Daughter, Coming Undone’ (Poem)

pp 195-196

‘Crumbs’ (Poem)

pp 196-197

‘Not Crying’ (Poem)

pp 197-198

THREE POEMS: ‘The String of Discord’ (Poem)

pp 199-200