African Science Fiction Isn’t ‘Rising’ – It Was Already Here

The wave of articles about “the rise of African SFF” or “the rise of Afrofuturism” sound familiar because they’re almost exact replicas of the same genre of articles from about 10 years ago – and those were similar to the previous wave of articles discussing the same thing. Indeed, the articles are “perpetuators of a gentle literary oppression that keeps African science fiction infantile.”