Notes on Contributors Introduction AfricanFuturism (Re)defined: Implications for Genre Conception, Creative Practice, and Literary Interpretations - Ernest Cole Articles Literary History, Afrifuturism, and Identity: Intimations the Post-African in "A Soul of Small Places" - Pede Hollist 'Visions of the Future': The Cosmopolitanism of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure Ambigue - Mohamed Kamara (Re)Writing the Past and Future: Time, Space, and Memory in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater and Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control - Ho Kiu Lee The Birth of Man 3: Reading Solomon's The Deep through the Lens of Sylvia Wynter's Theory of Man - Kwame Osei-Poku & Elizabeth Abena Osei Transcending the Margins: Interrogating Afrifuturism in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Kola Eke & Edafe Mukoro Afrofuturism and AfricanFuturism as Pathways through Trauma: A Return to the Past in Creating Fuller Futures in Frederick Douglass' Slave Narrative and Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Tabitha Parker Black Panther and Its Contestations: The Dilemma of (Re)Imagining African Futures - Tolulope Oke Afrifuturism and the Growth of African Feminist Criticism: Octavia Butler's Wild Seeds and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death - Amy Leonard American Afrofuturist: Hacking, Technology, and Neptune Frost - Lena Malpeli Lagos Reimagined: Alien Engagements and Dystopian Realities in Rosewater and "The Last Lagosian" - Omotoyosi Odukomaiya Afrifuturism in Science Fiction: African Mythology as a Posthuman Continuum in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon - Aishat Ize Yusuf Featured Articles Sexuality, Morality and the Writings of Women from Northern Nigeria: A Generational Perspective - Razinat T. Mohammed The Myth of the Ogre and Political Allegory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus - Hyginus Onuora Epistolary Coming of Age Memoir: Dipo Kalejaiye's Letters to the Grammarians - Modupe O. Olaogun Literary Supplement Short Stories 'Ways of Living' - Naomi Nkealah 'Company' - Tsitsi Zana Poems 'If you must' - Saidu Bangura 'Just Me and Ehu' - Blessing Okah 'The Vulture's Rhetoric (For Festus Iyayi)' - Raphael Onyejizu Reviews Ngozi Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Afamefuna: An Encyclopedia of Igbo Names - Nonye Chinyere Ahumibe Christopher N. Okonkwo, Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe & Toni Morrison - Chiji Ak¿ma Ejine Olga Nzeribe, Flora Nwapa: This Book Must be Written - Ini Uko