![]() The novel offers the crafted backstories of not only these main protagonists, but of so many figures the story meets along the way. ![]() If the idea of aliens choosing to arrive on the African continent rings a bell, you might be thinking of District 9, and it’s precisely her annoyance at this film that brought the author, as she tells it in the acknowledgments of the book, the inspiration for her novel.Ī woman – or at least, a being in form of a woman – arrives from the water, drawing together by intangible mean three Lagosians to meet her: Adaora, the scientist Agu, the soldier and Anthony, the artist. Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon – which I’d describe as a work of speculative fiction – is both a fun, high-action romp through the old sci-fi tropes of alien arrival (think War of the Worlds, Independence Day), and in many ways a carefully considered decolonisation of the genre and its Eurocentric epistemological underpinnings. Immediately, they change pollution levels, marine life, the quality of the ocean water – and that’s just before they get to land. ![]() ![]() Scholar of literary & cultural studies, editor of poco.lit.Īliens have landed off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria. ![]()
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