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So I am at that point my publisher is recommending that it is good if I get one to two endorsements for my book, any advice on how to do this 🤔

Throw Coca Cola on the soap and look what happens! It's like magic!

OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo: Nearly half of the AI safety researchers at OpenAI have left the company. This includes the previously unreported departures of Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Collin Burns, Jeffrey Wu, Jonathan Uesato, Steven Bills, Yuri Burda, and Todor Markov.

My book has a publication date, so excited.

Happy that the special issue of Science Fiction Studies on African sf which Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Peter J. Maurits, Ruth S. Wenske and I co-edited. You can read the special issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53295

We're so excited our African sf special issue is out @ #ScienceFictionStudies! Co-editors Gibson Ncube, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Ruth Wenske, I, &the authors think about how to understand African science & speculative fiction in the context of global sf. Let me introduce: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53295

In the intro, we take (T.L.) Tendai Huchu's “Egoli” (published by Wole Talabi (CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS out now) 2020) as archetypal African sf story, as it masterfully interweaves science fiction, legend, myth, and folklore, breaking down the boundaries between those forms in the process.

Ruth Wenske suggests the concept of “non-human near-omniscience”, to describe narrators with super-human knowledge. Reading Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️'s Lagoon, she shows how these narrators draw on African animist traditions characterized by relationality more than by absolute power.

Gibson Ncube describes how African sf rejects past/future dichotomies by shaping sf through African cosmologies, which he conceptualizes as "Speculative sankofaration". He draws on (T.L.) Tendai Huchu's “Egoli” & Olofinlua's "The Last Brown Roof" (published by Omenana speculative fiction magazine).

Keren Omry develops the concept of “allotropic temporality” to describe how African sf resists the binaries of utopia and dystopia. She draws on works by Namwali, Tlotlo Tsamaase, and Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Publishing Updates Only).

@JoannaWoods06 Woods suggests metal’s malleability as metaphoric for African sf’s ability to undergo/withstand rupture and re-formation, as it (re)makes itself in conversation with Afrofuturism/Africanfuturism/Africanjujuism. She draws on Andrew Miller and Namwali's work.

@amaznmegan discusses @yungdeadthing's Freshwater as realistic narrative, thus foregrounding African (Igbo) ontology in a world that often invalidates such cosmology, and offering an agential queer futurism that connects the human/non-human in kinship.

Marta Mboka Tveit explores the concept of "meshwork ecologies, discussing Mame Bougouma Diene’s “Hell Freezes Over” (in AfroSF) & Athi-Patra Ruga’s Azania series. Sustainable futures she writes, are central to African sf: it registers the environmental ethos of African ways of life.

PhD assessment is subjective. When I failed my viva, the chapter the assessors asked me to get rid of was the same chapter the series editors that acquired the work for Routledge read & requested the full manuscript. Failing my viva was never the fault of my supervisors 1/2

Response to the accusations by Erin Cairns drive.google.com/file/d/1pE2NmI…

I know you are going to say I am biased or something, but this cover is hot routledge.com/.../Ezeiyoke/p…

Good essay. I look forward to your translation project.

Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Can’t wait to read them🙂 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-…

Finally, my book, 'Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution', is out. Thanks to everyone, especially to Chloe Germaine, Dr Sarah Ilott, Bodhisattva C, Taryne Jade Taylor, Mark Bould and the two anonymous reviewers for your support. You can order a copy at routledge.com/Nigerian-Specu…