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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...

I'm proud to announce that my 2007 political satire From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain has been awarded the Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award . My congratulations go out also to Ss. Nnedi Okorafor who won the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award for her novel The Shadow Speaker . THE AUTHORS SAY: ROBERT SAWYER, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids “Minister Faust does it again: an outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field, bar none.” COREY REDEKOP, author of Shelf Monkey “Faust’s novel stands equal to such classics [as Watchmen and Dark Knight].” CHARLES SAUNDERS, author of Imaro “Pure satire... laugh-out-loud comedy. Superhero parodies have been done before. So have dysfunctional super-beings, ranging from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to the Watchmen. But nobody has done it as well as the Minister. If Richard Pryor had ever written science fiction, he might have come up with something like Doctor Brain.... Minister Faust is sh...