I hadn’t previously read anything by Nnedi Okorafor when I picked up Death of the Author, but after only a few pages in, I found myself making a mental note to add everything else she’s ever written to my To Read pile. Okorafor coined the term “Africanfuturism,” describing a subcategory of science fiction that’s “more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view” than the more “America-centric” Afrofuturism.
Death of the Author is kind of like two books in one, following Nigerian American main character Zelu’s meteoric rise to fame as the author of an unexpected hit novel, Rusted Robots, and
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