This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings in the emerging genre of Afrifuturism. In contrast to Afrofuturism, which explores the intersection of primarily Diaspora Black culture with Western technology and hence perpetuates, to some extent, a colonial mindset, Afrifuturism looks to imagine an African and global Black future beyond industrial, technological and capitalist terms, one rooted in African cosmologies and history. Contributions in this issue seek to interrogate, contest, and reformulate some aspects of its convention by suggesting alternate frames, shifts in focus, changing perspectives of history and points of view, new narrative methods, new epistemological structures, thematic concepts and pedagogical praxis that offer new ways of defining the African and for imagining alternative futures for African peoples. Together, they shed further light on the complexities of Afrifuturism and offers alternative models for thinking about the past and the future of African people, with important implications for diaspora and postcolonial literature.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Introduction AfricanFuturism (Re)defined: Implications for Genre Conception, Creative Practice, and Literary Interpretations - Ernest Cole Articles Literary History, Afrifuturism, and Identity: Intimations the Post-African in "A Soul of Small Places" - Pede Hollist 'Visions of the Future': The Cosmopolitanism of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure Ambigue - Mohamed Kamara (Re)Writing the Past and Future: Time, Space, and Memory in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater and Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control - Ho Kiu Lee The Birth of Man 3: Reading Solomon's The Deep through the Lens of Sylvia Wynter's Theory of Man - Kwame Osei-Poku & Elizabeth Abena Osei Transcending the Margins: Interrogating Afrifuturism in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Kola Eke & Edafe Mukoro Afrofuturism and AfricanFuturism as Pathways through Trauma: A Return to the Past in Creating Fuller Futures in Frederick Douglass' Slave Narrative and Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy - Tabitha Parker Black Panther and Its Contestations: The Dilemma of (Re)Imagining African Futures - Tolulope Oke Afrifuturism and the Growth of African Feminist Criticism: Octavia Butler's Wild Seeds and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death - Amy Leonard American Afrofuturist: Hacking, Technology, and Neptune Frost - Lena Malpeli Lagos Reimagined: Alien Engagements and Dystopian Realities in Rosewater and "The Last Lagosian" - Omotoyosi Odukomaiya Afrifuturism in Science Fiction: African Mythology as a Posthuman Continuum in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon - Aishat Ize Yusuf Featured Articles Sexuality, Morality and the Writings of Women from Northern Nigeria: A Generational Perspective - Razinat T. Mohammed The Myth of the Ogre and Political Allegory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus - Hyginus Onuora Epistolary Coming of Age Memoir: Dipo Kalejaiye's Letters to the Grammarians - Modupe O. Olaogun Literary Supplement Short Stories 'Ways of Living' - Naomi Nkealah 'Company' - Tsitsi Zana Poems 'If you must' - Saidu Bangura 'Just Me and Ehu' - Blessing Okah 'The Vulture's Rhetoric (For Festus Iyayi)' - Raphael Onyejizu Reviews Ngozi Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Afamefuna: An Encyclopedia of Igbo Names - Nonye Chinyere Ahumibe Christopher N. Okonkwo, Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe & Toni Morrison - Chiji Akọma Ejine Olga Nzeribe, Flora Nwapa: This Book Must be Written - Ini Uko