Nnedi Okorafor explained her alternative to this concept as “Wakanda builds its first outpost in a neighboring country,” whereas in this concept, “Wakanda builds its first outpost in Oakland.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this movement which includes Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany. It explores the intersection of technology with the Black diaspora.
ANSWER: Afrofuturism [accept Afrofuturist; reject “Africanfuturism”]
[10m] Okorafor’s rejection of the Americentrism of Afrofuturism was influenced by this writer’s creation of a utopia in the Sahara in The Rape of Shavi. Aku-nna’s stepfather refuses to let her marry Chike in this author’s novel The Bride Price.
ANSWER: Buchi Emecheta [or Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta]
[10h] In this multigenerational Africanfuturist novel, the government conducts surveillance via hand implants called Beads. This 2019 Namwali Serpell novel follows the intertwined lives of three families in Zambia across a century.
ANSWER: The Old Drift
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