The Rise of the Africans
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In there was a confluence of events in the science fiction and fantasy SFF landscape.
A big budget movie called District 9 , though flawed, earned four Oscar nominations and brought African Science Fiction into the limelight. What links District 9 and Black Panther , two films almost ten years apart, is the response of the Western consumer.
I will say that there is a difference between African SFF and African-American SFF and Afrofuturism, but the two are so intertwined that I predict in a few years it will no longer be a useful distinction, with Afrofuturism becoming the umbrella term. What I would like to do here is give a few examples that show African SFF across the ages, to hopefully demonstrate the amnesia that fogs things up until the next big budget event like, say, Black Panther II: Many of the earliest works have a tendency to skew literary, and it is doubtful if the authors would self-identify as writing SFF.
It casts white colonialists as technologically advanced supernatural beings and is a powerful first contact narrative which spawned folktales in Cameroun. Gandoki by Muhammadu Bello Kagara also involves encounters with Colonialists, only this time it is Nigeria, there is resistance as well as travel to other realms and phantasmagorical experiences with djinn. A similar, but more episodic book is Forest of a Thousand Daemons by D. Woman of the Aeroplanes , a book of lush language and great imagination by Kojo Laing is a lyrical exploration of an African village quantum-entangled with a town in Scotland.
The Famished Road by Ben Okri relates the experiences of an abiku a Yoruba spirit child , interweaving the supernatural and material world, earning the author the Man Booker prize. African SFF from the new millennium began to shift into traditional territory, becoming concerned with futurism, space travel and the environment.
Savannah AD by Jenny Robson is a futuristic novel with an environmentalist bent.
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