RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE IN SCIENCE FICTION IN NNEDI OKORAFOR 'S LAGOON AND WHO FEARS DEATH
Abstract
This research examines the African future in science fiction in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon and Who Fears Death. The study aims at giving an explanation to the concept of science fiction, examining societal issues and envisioning an alternative future through the instrumentality of science fiction. The study also aims at examining how the author deconstructs societal narratives and creating technologically advanced, new and imaginative African future. The project adopts Afrofuturism, which has in it, Africanfuturism to analyse the concept of an imaginative African future in the aforementioned texts. This research is a qualitative research which its primary sources are Okorafor's Lagoon and Who Fears Death and other relevant materials constitute the secondary sources. The analysis of the texts shows that African predicaments and its future can be deconstructed through the instrumentality of technology, supernatural and magical realism. The findings also prove that African future can be revisioned and imagined through the use of science fiction, technological innovations and magical realism. It is upon this, that the work concludes that science fiction should be broadly acknowledged in Africa.
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