Moonsamy, Nedine(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2019-10)
Looking at two short stories from Dilman Dila’s critically acclaimed short story collection, A Killing in the Sun (2014), I explore the controversial use of DDT in rural Uganda as a site of ecoambiguity. My close reading ...
Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon opens with a swordfish narrator who watches aliens while they populate the Nigerian waters. Unlike the narrator, who is entirely at home in the ocean, the aliens cannot breathe water with the same ...
Moonsamy, Nedine(Rhodes University, Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2016-12)
Alex Latimer’s The Space Race deploys the fairly conventional science fiction narrative where humans travel to the moon in search of a new home and, set in a post-apartheid context, the progressive possibilities of this ...
Set in 2023, Lauren Beukes’s Afterland captures the devastating effects of a global viral
pandemic. About three years prior, a highly contagious virus, called the human culgoa
virus (HCV), induced terminal prostate ...
Using contemporary science fiction as a barometer, we can see the African imaginary to be seemingly preoccupied with the idea of China and with forecasting various dystopian scenarios regarding the future of China–Africa ...
