Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)

by Nnedi Okorafor

The part of Africa that I knew existed and that was very much in the present and hurtling into the future in a really cool, unique way—I wanted to write about that place.

But in the science fiction of what I’ve come to call “Africanfuturism” (which is somewhat similar to Afrofuturism, but is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology, and perspective, where the center is non-Western), my characters inhabit worlds in which I can fight, play, invent, run, leap, and fly.