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Writing a book on African science fiction. 1st book on the Mozambican ghost story. 2*Sub-3h marathon. Likes to run far and up things.

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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.

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