SHARON LEWIS + BROWN GIRL IN THE RING, THE SEQUEL (MF GALAXY 035)
Maverick writer-director making indie film predecessor to Nalo Hopkinson’s groundbreaking Africentric SFF novel Brown Girl in the Ring is Nalo Hopkinson’s 1998 breakthrough novel that revitalised Africentric science fiction and fantasy. It’s the story of Ti-Jeanne , a medic and traditional healer in a near-future failed state Toronto . Ti-Jeanne can see through time, and she needs that power to survive the criminal despotism of Rudy , who runs the ruined city from his castle in the sky, the top of the CN Tower. Ti-Jeanne comes to understand the source of her vision, as embodied in what some Caribbean people call Carnival Spirits, but are actually the gods of the Ilé Ifé religion of the Yoruba kingdom sprawling Nigeria, Togo, and Benin . Those deities dwell across the Western Hemisphere in the religions of Santeria in Cuba, Candomblé and Umbanda in Brazil, and Voudou in Haiti. That family of faiths encompasses 50 million adherents , making it larger than the ...