• Londiwe Gamedze

In his debut novel, Thaer Husien remixes genre and takes readers on a psychedelic ride through a dystopian yet disturbingly familiar future Palestine.

• Unifier Dyer

The film 'Neptune Frost' reduces the gulf between Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism by connecting their shared vision against violent systems of domination.

• Nuotama Bodomo

In the 50th year since humans first landed on the moon, we take you back to Zambia's attempt to achieve that feat.

• Ainehi Edoro

The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'

• Mahriana Rofheart

A survey of African and Afro-Diasporic science fiction; stories that pushes the boundaries of the genre.

• Megan Eardley

In Deji Olukotun’s novel, a Nigerian NASA scientist — on behalf of all colonized people — wants to return moon rocks that Neil Armstrong brought back to earth.

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'District 9' comments on contemporary politics about domination, race and immigration, especially in South Africa.