![]() ![]() ![]() Now it's up to readers to do their parts. Nnedi Okorafor says this about Shadow Speaker: An unexpected apocalypse, spontaneous forests, polyandry, strange insects, fast cars, a new type of Sahara. and The Shadow Speaker (winner of the Parallax Award). Nothing like that cover issue will happen again. Nnedi Okorafor is a novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. To combat this, Okorafor says that change needs to come from readers. ![]() Her win was heavily contested by an anti-progressive group aptly called the Sad Puppies, who basically exist to make sure that women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community remain underrepresented in science fiction. In 2016, the author won the Hugo Award for her book Binti. the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a. WTF."Īs a black woman writing a black female main character in a scifi novel, seeing my character whitewashed on the cover felt-like-erasure: /h5Nlhp8DHeīut it's not only the publishing companies who contribute to the whitewashing of narratives in science fiction, it's readers too, says Okorafor. From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new, expanded edition of one of. "Story set in NIGER and that left cover was proposed to me. "I described Ejii as "black skinned" and subsaharan African," she wrote. ![]()
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