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Afromorphism · Definition
What is Afromorphism?
Afromorphism is a mode of African and Afro-diasporic narrative fiction concerned with the imaginative extension, transformation, and re-worlding of African mythological inheritance. At its centre is the conviction that African mythic and spiritual inheritance remains alive as a field of creative possibility.
Authors & Books
Ben Okri and the Abiku in The Famished Road
In The Famished Road, Ben Okri places readers inside the perception of Azaro, a spirit-child who chooses life among the living. Through Azaro, Okri uses inherited cosmology to construct the novel’s voice, setting, social vision, and account of historical recurrence.
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Is Afromorphism a Genre, a Mode, or a Method?
What changes when Afromorphism describes the transformation of cosmology across fantasy, horror, and science fiction, without imposing fixed boundaries?
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Afromorphism News Digest: Children of Blood and Bone Comes Into Focus, and Orisha Horror Goes Mobile
Authors & Books
D.O. Fagunwa and the Yoruba-Language Origins of the Nigerian Fantastic
Fourteen years before Amos Tutuola published The Palm-Wine Drinkard, the Yoruba schoolteacher D.O. Fagunwa sent a hunter into the Forest of a Thousand Daemons. Fagunwa, Tutuola, and Wole Soyinka show how writers present a cosmology in different languages, and what remains rooted in the original.
Afromorphism - Myths, Gods & Folklore
The Golden Stool and the Political Meaning of an Untouchable Seat
In March 1900, a British governor demanded the Golden Stool and asked why he was not sitting on it. By asking, he helped provoke a war because the stool belongs to the Asante nation, is ranked above its king, and may never be occupied.
Afromorphism - Field Notes
Africanfuturism, Africanjujuism, Afromorphism: Do We Need Another Term?
Nnedi Okorafor coined Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism to describe work that reviewers had misclassified. This article proposes Afromorphism as a related term for how writers transform African and Afro-diasporic cosmologies.
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Afromorphism News Digest: Afrofuturism in Science Centers, Opera, Festivals, and Bookstores
Afromorphism - Myths, Gods & Folklore
How Anansi Bought All Stories: A Lesson in Narrative as Property
In an Akan tale, Anansi purchases the sky-god’s stories by completing a series of impossible captures. A close reading of that transaction supports a theory of storytelling grounded in ownership, intelligence, and obligation.
Afromorphism - Field Notes
Afrofuturism and Afromorphism: Futurity, Inheritance, and Binti
Afrofuturist writers reclaim the future, while Afromorphic writers develop worlds from inherited cosmologies. Nnedi Okorafor's Binti shows how futurity and mythic inheritance can shape the same story.
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Afromorphism News Digest: Adeyemi Rejects Her Own Adaptation, and a New Epic Fantasy Emerges
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