Detail from the cover of Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase.
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Tlotlo Tsamaase’s first novel adds to an exciting and growing body of African science fiction.
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Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
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Africans are stereotyped as having no regard for time and timing. This is a myth.
Detail from the cover of Lagoon, a novel by Nnedi Okorafor.
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Aliens arrive in Lagos in Nnedi Okorafor’s celebrated sci-fi novel Lagoon – and with them they bring a future free of restrictive gender norms.