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Nnedi Okorafor is the celebrated author of ten books, including The Shadow Speaker, Who Fears Death , and the forthcoming The Book of Phoenix. Zahrah the Windseeker , Okorafor’s debut novel about a highly technological world based on Nigerian myths and culture, was nominated for the Locus Best First Novel Award, shortlisted for the Parallax and Kindred Awards, a finalist for the Golden Duck and Garden State Teen Choice awards, and it won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. This episode’s conversation with Okorafor comes from way down deep in the archives of The Terrordome: The Africa All-World News Service . I spoke with Okorafor by telephone back on January 18, 2009, but back then aired only a portion of what you’ll hear now. Okorafor talked about many issues, including: Her definition of what Euro-American literary critic Mark Dery called Afrofuturism The appeal of science fiction to African audiences who have for most of the genre’s existence been excluded by it...

Wednesday 6pm Mountain Time FM88 Edmonton cjsr.com World Wide Because of the horrifying history of medical experimentation against Africans as documented in the book Medical Apartheid by Dr. Harriet Washington , many Africans in North America remain profoundly suspicious of the medical establishment. That suspicion, however well-founded, sadl y stands in the way of li fe-saving treatments. Today, 30 African-Canadian patients are literally waiting to die because they don’t have a stem cell donor . Stem cells, harvested from bone marrow, are indispensable in the fight against leukemia, but compatibility for do nors in based in part on race. That crisis motivated a group of Edmontonians to found the Nega Alem Memorial Leukemia Awareness Society. I spoke with event organisers Gary Yemene and Tigi Truneh by telephone about this Saturday's event. WHAT: The Stem Cell Transplant and Leukemia Awareness Event in memory of Nega Alem Abraham WHEN: Saturday, November 07, 6 PM WHERE: T...