Tlotlo Tsamaase’s first novel adds to an exciting and growing body of African science fiction.
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There is something beautiful about African languages carrying science, fictionalised of course, into imagined futures.
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.
Western critics hailed the 1952 book as a great work of African fantasy. In fact it’s better understood as a pioneering work of African science fiction.
