It’s 2118 and you’ve arrived in Lagos for a book festival. When you step out of the airport, what is the first thing you see?<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh, we are assuming Lagos will still exist in a hundred years.\u00a0Well, I think Lagosians will still be a pretentious lot. So, there will be holograms displaying three Ey\u1ecd masquerades in their regalia singing \u2018\u1eb9kaab\u1ecd\u0301\u2019 and some traders underneath the machine projecting the holograms trying to sell Retractable Homes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ve been selected for a mission to the moon. Which African author are you taking and why?<\/b><\/p>\n Definitely Nnedi Okorafor. She will probably know what to do if we get stranded or get abducted by aliens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What invention do you think would change the lives of Africans today?<\/span><\/p>\n A time machine. So we can go back in time and beat the shit out of those colonialists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two things you\u2019re doing when not reading or writing?<\/b><\/p>\n Playing FIFA and trolling people on twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To what extent has African literature envisioned an African future?<\/b><\/p>\n I think to a very large extent, African Literature has done a lot, although I find myself cringing sometimes at how pessimistic some of these narratives usually are. <\/span>I still think it is possible for us to imagine even more and write the kind of future we want.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What book do you think best captures Afrofuturism?<\/b><\/p>\n