{"id":12373,"date":"2015-06-25T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nigerians-in-space-afrofuturist-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2015-06-25T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:20:04","slug":"nigerians-in-space-afrofuturist-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nigerians-in-space-afrofuturist-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians in Space: afrofuturist science fiction debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/122383679658\/nigerians-in-space-afrofuturist-science-fiction\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/587e0192d7938227eff034546bd6c605\/tumblr_inline_nqfumxHbfB1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This sounds good: Afrocyberpunk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrocyberpunk.com\/archives\/nigerians-in-space-book-review\/\">reviews<\/a> the debut novel of Deji Olukotun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1939419018\/downandoutint-20\">Nigerians in Space<\/a>:<br \/>\n \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t hit golf balls like the American astronauts. He would<br \/>\nsqueeze out rhythms from a talking drum into the blackness between the<br \/>\nstars. These were the drums of war and death, of celebration, the drums<br \/>\nthat had bonded the towns of his homeland over centuries in tonal<br \/>\ncommunication\u2026 He would bind the stars with the drums. There would be<br \/>\ndancing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrocyberpunk.com\/archives\/nigerians-in-space-book-review\/\">Review<\/a> [Afrocyberpunk]\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1939419018\/downandoutint-20\">Nigerians in Space<\/a> [Amazon]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: This sounds good: Afrocyberpunk reviews the debut novel of Deji Olukotun, Nigerians in Space: \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t hit golf balls like the American astronauts. He would squeeze out rhythms from a talking drum into the blackness between the stars. These were the drums of war and death, of celebration, the drums that had bonded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}