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Lagoon is an Africanfuturistfirst contact novel by Nnedi Okorafor (2014, Hodder & Stoughton; 2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster). It has drawn much scholarly attention since its publication, some of which was written before Okorafor's important clarification that her work is "Africanfuturist" rather than "Afrofuturist."[1][2][3][4] In 2014 it was chosen as an honor list title for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.[5]
Lagoon originated as a screenplay Okorafor wrote for Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, after both were frustrated with "abysmal stereotyping" of Nigerians in the South African film District 9.[6]
^Esthie Hugo (2017) Looking forward, looking back: animating magic, modernity and the African city-future in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, Social Dynamics, 43:1, 46-58, doi:10.1080/02533952.2017.1345528.
^O'Connell, Hugh Charles (2016). "'We are change': The Novum as Event in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon". Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 3 (3): 291–312. doi:10.1017/pli.2016.24. S2CID192129602.
^Michael Paye (2019) Beyond A Capitalist Atlantic: Fish, Fuel, and the Collapse of Cheap Nature in Ireland, Newfoundland, and Nigeria, 'Irish University Review', 49.1, 117-34, doi:10.3366/iur.2019.0384