ALT 43: Afrifuturism

ERNEST COLE is the John Dirk Werkman Endowed Professor of English at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and Associate Editor of African Literature Today. ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). MOHAMED KAMARA is Professor of French and Africana Studies and Chair of the Romance Languages Department at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Razinat T. Mohammed is Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Abuja. The award-winning author of A Love Like a Woman's and other Stories (2006), her publications also include Intra-gender Relations between Women: A Study of Nawal El-Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta's Novel (2012).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionAfricanFuturism (Re)defined: Implications for Genre Conception, Creative Practice, and Literary Interpretations - Ernest Cole Articles Literary History, Afrifuturism, and Identity: Intimations the Post-African in "A Soul of Small Places" - Pede Hollist'Visions of the Future': The Cosmopolitanism of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure Ambigue - Mohamed Kamara(Re)Writing the Past and Future: Time, Space, and Memory in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater and Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control - Ho Kiu LeeThe Birth of Man 3: Reading Solomon's The Deep through the Lens of Sylvia Wynter's Theory of Man - Kwame Osei-Poku & Elizabeth Abena OseiTranscending the Margins: Interrogating Afrifuturism in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Kola Eke & Edafe MukoroAfrofuturism and AfricanFuturism as Pathways through Trauma: A Return to the Past in Creating Fuller Futures in Frederick Douglass' Slave Narrative and Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Tabitha ParkerBlack Panther and Its Contestations: The Dilemma of (Re)Imagining African Futures - Tolulope OkeAfrifuturism and the Growth of African Feminist Criticism: Octavia Butler's Wild Seeds and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death - Amy LeonardAmerican Afrofuturist: Hacking, Technology, and Neptune Frost - Lena MalpeliLagos Reimagined: Alien Engagements and Dystopian Realities in Rosewater and "The Last Lagosian" - Omotoyosi OdukomaiyaAfrifuturism in Science Fiction: African Mythology as a Posthuman Continuum in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon - Aishat Ize Yusuf Featured Articles Sexuality, Morality and the Writings of Women from Northern Nigeria: A Generational Perspective - Razinat T. MohammedThe Myth of the Ogre and Political Allegory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus - Hyginus OnuoraEpistolary Coming of Age Memoir: Dipo Kalejaiye's Letters to the Grammarians - Modupe O. OlaogunLiterary Supplement Short Stories'Ways of Living' - Naomi Nkealah'Company' - Tsitsi Zana Poems'If you must' - Saidu Bangura'Just Me and Ehu' - Blessing Okah'The Vulture's Rhetoric (For Festus Iyayi)' - Raphael Onyejizu ReviewsNgozi Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Afamefuna: An Encyclopedia of Igbo Names - Nonye Chinyere AhumibeChristopher N. Okonkwo, Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe & Toni Morrison - Chiji AkọmaEjine Olga Nzeribe, Flora Nwapa: This Book Must be Written - Ini Uko