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I promised I’d share about my dissertation which was all about YA afrofuturism and now I am finally following through! 😇
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📚 The Books 📚
Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Slay by Brittney Morris
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturism blog post: http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html
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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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This was a FANTASTIC video! You're brilliant!
Great video! The part on language was very interesting. I find all languages very fascinating.
Loved this video so much ❤ So informative and was great to hear your thoughts after your dissertation. I really hope a lot of people get to see this video. 🙌
I'm so happy you made a video about your dissertation!! Thank you for sharing, I learned so much <3
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I'm just gonna go ahead and add all these that I haven't read to my TBR. Also your dissertation sounds really fascinating and congrats on finishing it! That's such a huge achievement after so much work. The embracing of "otherness" is sci-fi is something I've seen Nnedi Okorafor lean into a lot in her work, which also tends to feature young black women or girls in these principle roles.
I'm interested in reading these books and always get more interested every time you talk about them! I'm learning a lot about all the concepts you bring up for your dissertation, especially about the metaphors. Everything was really fascinating and so well constructed. Even without having read your dissertation, I can tell a lot of your enthusiasm about this subject went into it. I know those results will be great!
Great video, Olivia! Will you publish your dissertation maybe?
I loved hearing about your dissertation. I have read only Binti from theones you mentioned. Slay is on my TBR so hope to get to it soon. And I really want to read some Octavia E. Butler, especially Kindred (I hope I wrote that correctly) Heard so many goos things about it. And I need to reread Binti and read the rest of the series.
This was very interesting, thank you !
Okay firstly I am so interested in reading all three of these fictions works. I already wanted to read them but this has just solidified it! And this was honestly such an interesting video to watch, to hear all your points which were so well constructed! Even without you being able to put spoilers for the books in there were so many amazing points and I would love to read the whole thing one day
I'm interested in reading books by nendi okorafor, I tried who fears death two years ago but I DNFed it hopefully I will enjoy her other works
Well clearly you nailed your dissertation! ✨🎉
Thank you for sharing this with us, Olivia-Savannah!
YES, fiction is necessary to imagine better outcomes than what our world currently has! I truly believe we need joy/success/etc. in stories to be a kind of road map – if we can't even imagine a better world in fiction, how can we hope to put one into practice, you know?
Afrofuturism is so underrated and I am definitely going to be putting more of it on my TBR! I've heard a lot about "Binti" so I may pick up that one, as well as the non-fiction book about Afrofuturism by Womack that you first recced.
That was a very well researched and executed dissertation. Also your presentation was seamless and flowy. Obviously, you are a natural, so I'm taking notes.
Your dissertation sounds amazing 🧡. This was really interesting! I learnt a lot. The blog post by Nnedi Okorafor about Africanfuturism was interesting to read too, thanks for linking that. I haven't read any Afrofuturist novels yet, one I plan to read is the Binti trilogy (though the blog post by her makes me think that I should call it Africanfuturism like she says?).
I’ve gotten into this genre recently and I have so many books on my wishlist, thanks for more recommendations lol
Wow I loved this video, thank you for sharing your hard work, it was all so amazingly done. I’ve only read Binti, which I didn’t keep up with because there’s something about short books in series that makes me feel the story is cut in half. I’d like to read Riot baby and Don’t touch my hair.
This was absolutely amazing! I learned so much and appreciate the book recs too! “This is your problem. What are you going to do about it?” Yes, yes, yes!!!
I want this dissertation
I adore this video. Thank you for sharing parts of it!
I am not a gamer so I was hesitant going into Slay. But I really loved the way she explores themes with the combination of joy and connection.
Binti is brilliant and I found each one was just better.
Neither of these are young adult and never quite sure when to use the term afrofurturism but Pet and The Deep are both bloody brilliant. Both intersectional by enby authors exploring both trauma and beauty of family and connection. Pet is close to a universal recommendation for it's really nesecarry exploration of sexual abuse of children without ever showing anything explicit and discussing it in a way that children can really comprehend. See themselves or others. And it has a trans lead without it being the focus or traumatic.
And Raybearer is one of the best fantasy I have read in a really long time. It's creative and introspective and just altogether lovely.
Thank you so much for this video ❤❤
Loved hearing about your dissertation! These are a great set of books you chose for it. I think another YA afrofuturist book that I really enjoyed was Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (although, perhaps that's African Futurist instead?). There are also some good SFF short stories, some of which I think would count as Afrofuturist, in the collection Black from the Future edited by Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle, and in Sunspot Jungle Vol.1&2 edited by Bill Campbell. And if you haven't read them, I think both The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps and A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson are in a semi-afrofuturist world (it's more fantasy, but there are some aspects of aliens and math that make it a little afrofuturist, I think), and they are lovely stories with poetic writing that center male-male relationships.
I am at uni as well studying Criminology and Sociology. I love your dissertation, it is well sum up.
Is it bad I really want to read your dissertation? This was super interesting.
Wonderful video, very informative. You crunched a lot of information into 19 minutes. Octavia Butler's Fledgling!