This week, we begin Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy, and discuss the first novella. What is africanfuturism? How do books teach you to read them? Sure, drugs are cool, but have you ever gotten high on math?

Next week: Binti: Home, the second novella in Binti: The Complete Trilogy!

Footnotes:

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• Binti: The Complete Trilogy
  
  
• Nnedi Okorafor
  
  
• “Africanfuturism Defined“
  
  
• “Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa” (TED)
  
  
• Flame Wars: The Discourse Of Cyberculture
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood
  
  
• Silt Striders (Morrowind)
  

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