African sf: An Introduction (original) (raw)

Introduction to special issue on African SF for the journal _Science Fiction Studies_. The special issue brings together six essays on African sf works that collectively shed light on the development and evolution the field has undergone, while engaging contemporary questions that transcend both geographic and generic boundaries, and which explore African sf’s engagement with themes of gender, intersectionality, ecology, and climate change. We have chosen to use the overarching term “African sf” to intentionally confuse the boundary between “African science fiction” and “African speculative fiction” – which for us includes Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism – reflecting that in our view they are inseparable, and expanding the “science” in sf to include Indigenous technologies, including architecture, art, herbal knowledge, language, divination, memory, and narrative.

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