Books by Tavia Nyong'o
“Tavia Nyong’o’s Black Apocalypse is a book I can’t stop talking about. Remember Kafka’s axe that shatters the frozen sea within us? The text in this book is wounding, stabbing, in its deconstruction of anti-black racism, Afro-pessimism and Black counter-speculation. The world needs, now more than ever, writers and readers who embrace prolific differentiation and survivalist self-invention in the speculative estrangement that Afrofuturism affords in an apocalyptic era.” Read more...
Eugen Bacon, Novelist
Interviews where books by Tavia Nyong'o were recommended
Afrofuturist Books, recommended by Eugen Bacon
‘Afrofuturism’ is a term that has come to describe books about the Black experience through a speculative lens. We asked Eugen Bacon, the award-winning fantasy author and member of the Sauúti Collective—who, together, have created a shared fictional universe—to recommend five key Afrofuturist books.
