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…afterwards, I did an epic two-hour signing. Huge line. Someone even brought a first hardcover edition of Zahrah the Windseeker, .

So much love, 🥰.

Did a panel yesterday at the National Book Festival in D.C. with V.E. Schwab and it was fantastic. My 1st public event since ending my four-month book tour in April.

We had opposite writing processes (she’s a “plotter”, I’m a “pantser”), made for a great conversation.

@oblomov I defined the term briefly in this essay: http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html?m=1

Honestly, I’m not into writing too much about categories. I kinda hate all this categorizing. It’s limiting and reductive. In this case, I needed to play the categories game because the term “afrofuturism” was engulfing everything in a damaging way.

My Nsibidi Scripts series is a prime example of africanjujuism, a subcategory of fantasy. What would you expect? That’s not for me to answer.

…also, NOT EVERYTHING I WRITE is africanfuturist, *gasp*. There’s also africanjujuism. And some other things.

I only defined these two categories because I felt things needed to be complicated. If I said nothing, alllll speculative fiction by black people would have clumped under one category that had very specific origins (that were USA-centered, rooted).

It’s only AFTER I did this that you got others more adamantly coining new terms for black spec fic categories.

A tired exhausted but still strong reminder:

@tom_armstrong @quinn africanfuturism is the term. No “Afro” anything.