The term Afrofuturism is being rejected by writers of African descent because it is a distinctly different genre that should not be used interchangeably with Africanfuturism. The latter centres the African point of view, experience, culture, themes, and history with technology-based in Africa, not the diaspora.
African Writers
Arts, Culture and Sport Drama that shaped Ngũgĩ’s writing and activism comes home to Kenya
Banned 45 years ago, and its author detained, the Gikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda profoundly shaped the literary legend.
Arts, Culture and Sport The geometry of grief
The South African-Nigerian novelist Yewande Omotoso has reimagined her deepest loss in An Unusual Grief, the darkly funny story of a mother who infiltrates her dead daughter’s life.
Arts, Culture and Sport Historic Nebula winner Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki came for everything
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Nebula-winning story “O2 Arena” is a biopolitical dystopia in which oxygen has become a commodity, with all the possible class implications.
Arts, Culture and Sport Interview — Ndebele novelist Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya is seeking the ancient paths
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya is one of the more prominent writers writing in Ndebele. Her new novel, Zalabantu Ziyebantwini’, came out this month. It will be followed by her fourth book, Portrait of Emlanjeni, later this year.
Arts, Culture and Sport The Burden of the Writer’s Legacy
A year after his debut novella, Diaspora Dreams, Andrew Chatora thinks about the place of the African writer in the global context. Nominated for a major award in Zimbabwe, Diaspora Dreams interrogates identity, belonging and the migrant experience, a thread also followed by Chatora’s new novel, Where the Heart Is.
Arts, Culture and Sport Dambudzo Marechera Ari pakati peN’angawo Here? – Chikamu 2: “Shona rimwe remadhimoni emughetto andaiedza kutiza”
Long Read | In this second essay of a seven-part Shona series, “Is Dambudzo Marechera also among Medicinemen?” Onai Mushava revisits Marechera’s famous statement, “Shona was part of the ghetto daemon I was trying to escape.”
Arts, Culture and Sport The weight and want of Noviolet Bulawayo’s ‘Glory’
After a profoundly successful debut, Noviolet Bulawayo’s second novel – which began as non-fiction – leaves realism for allegory to confront the Zimbabwean present.
Arts, Culture and Sport Dambudzo Marechera Ari pakati peN’angawo Here? – Chikamu 1: Mabhingo eMunyori | Essay in Shona
This Is Africa announces 2022 as the year of “Return to Marechera.” The great Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987), would have turned 70 this year.