Acknowledgments

Introduction: Africanfuturism, Development, and Humanities

1. Afrofuturist Ecolinguistics: Redefining the “Science” of Science Fiction

2. Birthing the Future: Métissage and Cultural Hybridity in Francophone African Women’s Writing

3. Child Soldiers: Reinscribing the Human in a Culture of Perpetual War

4. Alienation, Estrangement, and Dreams of Departure: Emigration and the Politics of Global Inequality in (and out of) Francophone Africa

5. “We Don’t Need No Education” Alternative Pedagogies and Epistemologies in Bassek Ba Kobhio’s Sango Malo (1990) and Le Silence de la forêt (2003)

6. Paradis Artificiels: The Lottery of Global Economies in Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc, Imunga Ivanga’s Dôlè, and Fadika Kramo-Lanciné’s Wariko

7. Arguing against the Shame of the State: Sony Labou Tansi’s Ecocritical Womanism and Gaiacene Planetarity

Conclusion: Toward an Afrofuturist Ecohumanist Philosophy of Experience

Notes

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