Such figures include Udide Okwanka, a trickster spider and master weaver of tales from Igbo folklore Legba, the Yoruba trickster god of language and the crossroads who is recast as an expert 419 scammer, but who also shows up in spirit form as Papa Legba and new figures such as the Bone Collector, a sentient stretch of the Lagos-Benin highway that attacks humans.
Alongside these fantastical powers, the novel also incorporates various Nigerian folkloric and mythical entities, which physically manifest themselves and interact with the material world after being awakened by the aliens in the second act.
Blending its SF topoi with fantasy and folklore elements, we learn that the three human protagonists have special abilities (Adaora can create a shield around herself and breathe underwater, Agu has superhuman strength, and Anthony can make his voice heard and understood at great distances). Across these three acts, the novel's primary plot revolves around the alien ambassador, Ayodele, and her interactions with three human protagonists: Adaora, a marine biologist Agu, a Nigerian soldier and Anthony, a Ghanaian hip-hop artist. narrative across three acts: "Welcome" (in which the aliens make contact with the people of Lagos), "Awakening" (an explosion of violence across the city after contact is made), and "Symbiosis" (a period of utopian transformation, in which the aliens and humans come together to form a new postcapitalist Nigeria). Lagoon narrates the story of aliens landing in Lagos, Nigeria. The novels jumble up the developmental plot of teleological narratives, of which colonialism's civilizing narratives are a subset, in favor of a melange that brings otherwise suppressed plots and possibilities to the forefront.Lagoon develops its. In this article, I analyse the ways in which Nnedi Okorafor's Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) challenges stable and so-called normative identities and ways of being. Read together, they display a tension between desire for a revolution that totally rewrites the past and desire for a more symbiotic collectivity that incorporates past and future. These novels deploy the afterlives of both the precolonial and the anticolonial within the futurism of speculative fiction. I analyze Who Fears Death (2010), set in far-futuristic Sudan, and Lagoon (2014), set in near-futuristic Nigeria. Who and EastEnders) for Hodder & Stoughton, the audiobook is really well done. Narrated By Ben Onwukwe (known for his role in London’s Burning) and Adjoa Andoh (known for her roles in Dr.
These modes are not mutually exclusive, but few combine them as thoroughly as does author Nnedi Okorafor in her emerging oeuvre. Lagoon By Nnedi Okorafor is the World Fantasy Award winning author’s first novel for adults since 2010s Who Fears Death. Abstract : African anticolonial texts have often grappled with the historiographical disruptions of colonialism by either imagining an "authentic" precolonial past or by advocating a better future through a complete break with the oppressive past.
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