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Feminist Africa, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2021): Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism

This Feminist Africa issue was inspired by my weekly conversations with five African-born graduate students in “Gender & Sexuality in Afro-Futurism”, an upper-level course offered by the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. We began the course by discussing why individuals of ...
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Editorial

Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism

Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué

Features

“How to Save the World from Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure”: Repurposing the “Master’s House” in The Wormwood Trilogy

Jenna N. Hanchey & Godfried Asante

When the Lagoons Remember: An Afroqueer Futurist Reading of “Blue Ecologies of Agitation”

Kwame Edwin Otu

“One Foot on the Other Side”: An Africanfuturist Reading of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)

Haunted Airports and Sexual Anxieties in Nana Nyarko Boateng’s “Swallowing Ice”

Africanfuturism and the Reframing of Gender in the Fiction of Nnedi Okorafor

Standpoint

The Liquid Space where African Feminism and African Futurism Meet

Fiction

Land of My Dreams

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Exhibition

The Afrofuturist Village

Masiyaleti Mbewe

Reviews

Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture by Simidele Dosekun

Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola

Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality,by Kamala Kempadoo and Halimah A.F. DeShong(eds)

“Liberation is Necessarily an Act of Culture”: A Review of Spirit Desire by Sokari Ekine

Contributors

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