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An Afrofuturism book haul and reading list for my dissertation!
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📚 The Books Mentioned: 📚
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Dark Matter: An Anthology
Afrofuturism by Ytasha Womack
Afrofuturism 2.0
Slay by Brittney Morris
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Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a British student studying English Literature and Creative Writing in the UK. I also spend a lot of time in the Netherlands where some of my family live. I love reading, writing, yoga, cooking and baking. I love reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x
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Do you know of any authors that were born in Africa?
Binti (novella)
The Black God's Drums (novella)
Wild Seed – Octavia Butler
Riot Baby
The Chaos – Nalo Hopkinson (YA)
The Gilda Stories (Vampire LGBTQ+)
Dark Matter – Shree R Thomas
LOVED THIS SO MUCH!!! I keep seeing people recommending Binti so I might have to give it a try. Slay is another one I really want to read because I love when they include videogames in books
black empire by george schuyler. Hard book to find, almost impossible. If you read it, you would understand why
Omg your dissertation sound soooo interesting!! 👀
Wild Seed has definitely peaked my interest and I look forwarding to hearing your more in depth thoughts on these books 🙌🏻📖💕
I did a whole report on Afrofuturism for a class once–such an fascinating genre and one I'll be using this reading list to get to know more of!
I have Binti on my TBR. Dark Matter sounds great! The two non-fiction books sound interesting. I have Slay on my TBR, I just saw on Instagram you were reading it haha (unless you have finished it by now!).
Your dissertation sounds really interesting. Good luck with your studying and writing.
Will your dissertation be available to the public? Interested in reading if so.
I'd never heard of Afrofuturism before your video! Thanks for sharing your haul. Slay sounds super interesting; I'll have to look for it the next time I go shopping! Best of luck on your dissertation 🙂
I would read the absolute ish out of your dissertation, as well as the wonderful book suggestions it will be based off – can't fully understand an academic paper without first understanding the source material, after all! Thank you!
I really want to read Binti! I love sci-fi with aliens.
Ooh! Also Slay! I hear good things and I love the video game aspect.
your dissertation sounds super cool! i loved the black god's drums so i rly hope you enjoy it when you get to it!! & i rly wanna get to the gilda stories asap!
You have the best dissertation topic. I loved Binti. I really enjoy Octavia Butler's writing, but I haven't read Wild Seed yet.
Good luck on your dissertation! I also thought the Binti series is great (I really want to read some more Nnedi Okorafor!) and you know I loved Slay!
What a great list of books. I read my first Octavia E Butler book last month (albeit in graphic novel form) and really want to read more from her. I think I need to read Binti and Slay. I've heard so many amazing things about both.
What an awesome dissertation topic!
I loved Binti! Just read it at the start of this month and I can’t wait to get the rest of the series. I’ve gotta add those others to my TBR as well.
Thanks for sharing and all the best for your dissertation. I look forward to hearing how it develops.
I totally resonate with the starting a lot of books and not finishing them… I am soooooo in that space right now.
I have heard of afrofuturism but I'm not 100% certain what does and does not qualify. So I'm basically just trying to read broadly and listen to how others use the term to get a better read on it.
Your dissertation sounds so interesting! Good luck! I heard about Black God’s Drum on Twitter and it definitely picked my interest. I didn’t know Riot Baby was afrofuturism! The Gilda Stories has been on my wishlist for a looooong time – it seems AMAZING! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the non-fiction ones!
This came at just the right time. I am SO into Afrofuturism right now. Really anything Black centric that really focuses on Black culture.
Waw your dissertation sounds amazing!! I hope you publish it! I'm dying to read the binti trilogy and some Octavia Butler!! 😍
All the best to your dissertation. 🎉😄💖
So many books that I've added to my tbr from this video! I'm so jealous of your dissertation haha, I'm sure it's going to be a lot of hard work but it also sounds fun! My undergrad dissertation was on offshore windfarms… it wasn't great. Postgrad was much better haha
awesome video:)))
Your dissertation sounds fantastic, Olivia. Proper brilliant. Plus, I got some amazing Afro-futuristic book recommendations so thank you 😊.
your dissertation sounds so interesting!!!
i recently read a couple of afrofuturism books and am so excited to read more!!
i loved binti, she was such a great character <3
i recently read a dead djinn in cairo and LOVED it so i'm so excited to read black gods drums!!
I've heard such good things about Octavia E. Butler I really want to get to her books soon!!!
oooo chaos sounds so interesting!!!
those afrofuturism books look stunning!!! those covers *heart eyes*
great video olivia <3
Sounds so great! I so want to read Wild Seed and The Chaos. I read Slay recently and really enjoyed it. Love afrofuturism and how expansive it can be, was in a workshop a couple years ago where after learning about it they let us just be creative and imagine a world together and its so dope the many different creative things folks came up with.
Sounds like a fascinating dissertation topic! I've read the Binti trilogy, but I'll have to check out the others. Chaos sounds particularly interesting.
Your dissertation topic sounds so intriguing – I hope it goes well! I have a few of the books you mentioned on my TBR that I'm hoping to read in the next month or so, such as Binti and Slay. The others on this list sound really interesting as well so I'll definitely be looking into them and giving them a try. This was a wonderful video!
This sounds like an amazing list. I've got a lot on my TBR. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on all of them.
I am envious of your dissertation. It sounds positively amazing – I hope you're able to enjoy your work on it. Wild Seed has a great cover and you've picked out some books I've been interested in reading previously. I read Riot Baby earlier this year and will be reading it again before the year is out because it's one that keeps lingering in my mind.
I just finished slay, today. I don’t read contemporary very often but holy crap was this book amazing!
Your dissertation sounds really interesting and your selection of novels/novellas just as interesting! I am writing my Masters dissertation on afrofuturism as well so I wish you the very best!
Gosh, your dissertation sounds so interesting and I can’t wait to hear more about it as you go through!
Your dissertation sounds very interesting ! Good luck 😊
Binti is small but sounds very interesting! I’ll add it to my tbr. I just finished Slay and really enjoyed it!!
Your dissertation sounds absolutely amazing, good luck with writing! Also, I loved Binti and Slay! And I’m going to be picking up my first Octavia Butler for the Octavia Butler slow read and I’m excited to finally read one of her books. Riot Baby is also on my TBR! Such a great list!
Good luck with your dissertation!
I've either read or am interested pretty much everything on this list, I really need to make a point of looking for afrofuturism in books as it's definitely something I enjoy – especially The Black God's Drums, I need a full-length novel from P. Djeli Clark!
YES! i have read some of these and the rest are on my tbr!!! Octavia E Butler is one of my favorite authors!!!
Binti and The Black God's Drums are both great! I also have Riot Baby on my list to read. Have you read anything by Nicky Drayden? Prey of Gods was really good, and I just bought Escaping Exodus. You may also want to try David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. I also just bought BodyMinds Reimagined (non-fiction) by Sami Schalk because it sounded interesting. Good luck with your dissertation!