Photo Credit: Massimiliano Donati/Awakening/Getty Images What makes Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's writing so potent is her ability to translate oral tradition-based cultures to written word. OkayPlayer wants to shine a light on them in the hopes that more people can read their wonderful work and be transported both elsewhere and deeper within themselves. Hailing from different countries and backgrounds, each of these writers has a unique perspective to share. Others are only slightly divergent from what we know, but with a difference so crucial, it allows us to see our own world in a completely different light. Some worlds are vastly different, occurring in alternate realities from ours. Meet eight griots of fictional storytelling who build fantastical worlds that reach beyond what we experience here on Earth. It’s for this reason that stories that explore hypothetical realities from a Black perspective tend to resonate strongly with readers everywhere. The nebulous genres of science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy are prime incubators for pushing the boundaries of conceptualization and morality, the perseverance of humanity in less-than-likely places.
Writers throughout time have taken to the page to imagine the possibilities of what could be. It’s a tool for us to preserve and process the past but it is also a means by which we conjure our futures.
These Black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction authors build fantastical worlds that reach beyond what we experience here on Earth.
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