The Department of African Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London, is hosting a new lecture series from February 2017 focusing on speculative fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. The series is open to all those who are passionate about speculative fictions from Africa, including university students at all levels of their academic development. The series will explore the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magic realism. Details are here, and also see the attached programme with details about the lectures.
| 22nd February | 6-8pm | Dr. Nicholas Wood: South African Speculative Fiction
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| 1st March | 5 – 6pm | Dr. Polina Levontin: Scientists in Nigerian Science Fiction
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| 1st March | 6 – 8pm | Miriam Pahl: Literature as a Lighthouse: African Science Fiction and Ecocritical Representations of War and Conflict
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| 8th March | 4- 5.30pm | Sinéad Murphy: Predicting’ the Arab Spring: forces of genre and culture in Egyptian Science Fiction
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| 8th March | 6-8pm | Geoff Ryman: Title TBC
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| 22nd March | 6-8pm | Dr. Christos Callow: Performing Afrofuturism: Science fiction theatre and the work of Andrea Hairston |