Today’s episode is with one of today’s great writers of science fiction and fantasy, Nnedi Okorafor. Using her new novella Remote Control (Tor Books) as a lens and a frame, we discuss the difference between Afrofuturism & Africanfuturism, questions of hybrid identity and home within her stories, her use of Nigerian, Namibian & Ghanian cosmologies […]
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