ABSTRACT
While many examinations of African SF assume that narratives of aliens and future technology are contested outgrowths of colonialism and slavery, Nnedi Okorafor states plainly that “it was my Nigerian heritage that led me to write science fiction”. Her aliens are not invaders, but they parallel the agency of animals and deities in West African cosmologies. Her technology isn’t imposed from outside, but grown from histories of African knowledge and craftsmanship projected into technological futures. Her stories reframe these SF staples as elements autochthonous to and potentially productive for African peoples now and in Afro-centered black futures.
