• Publication: Vector 289Publication Record # 779340 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Michelle Clarke, Polina Levontin, Jo Lindsay Walton
• Date: 2019-08-00
• Publisher: BSFA
• Pages: 93
• Format:
  A4^?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Cover: Vector 289 by Ronnie McGrath
• Notes: Special issue of Vector on African and Afrodiasporic SFF

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 2 • Torque Control • [Torque Control] • essay by Michelle Clarke
• 15 • Looking Forward Through the Imagination of Africa • essay by Anwuli Okeke
• 20 • African Science Fiction and Literature • essay by Chinelo Onwualu
• 24 • Vector Interviews Dilman Dila • interview of Dilman Dila • interview by Polina Levontin
• 31 • 'We Have Come to Refuel Your Future': Asphalt Afrofuturism and African Futurities • essay by Gemma Field
• 38 • Afrofuturism in Clipping.'s Splendor & Misery • essay by Jonathan Hay
• 45 • Vibranium, Nigerium, and the Elements of a Pessimistic Afrofuturism • essay by Kate Harlin
• 52 • Afro- Versus Africanfuturism in Nnedi Okorafor's "The Magical Negro" and "Mother of Invention" • essay by
  Päivi Väätänen^?Paivi Vaatanen
• 59 • Writing and Publishing 'Complicated Stuff' in an African Language • essay by Masimba Musodza
• 63 • A Personal Perspective on South African Comics: From Superheroes to Ordinary Heroes • essay by Nick Wood
• 72 •   Review: AfroSFv3 by Ivor W. Hartmann • review by Andy Sawyer
• 74 • African SF in Conversation • interview of Wole Talabi • interview by Louisa Egbunike
• 82 • Come and Visit My Spaceship! Arab Futurity and the Art of Mounir Ayache • essay by Joan Grandjean
• 88 • Black Futures in Two Eastern African Films • essay by
  Lidia Kniaź^?Lidia Kniaz