Namwali Serpell’s second novel The Furrows: An Elegy is due out next year, and it promises to be a book to look out for. In September, Serpell already presented the novel in an online sitting of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series.
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Recently, we’ve published articles on Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism. Both Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism can be framed as belonging to the larger genre of speculative fiction. But what is speculative fiction? Or perhaps more importantly, what can it do?
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Namwali Serpell’s debut The Old Drift is a challenging, many-layered novel about relationships between states and people that change with the world around them.
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