Co-hosted by African Speculative Fiction Society
Abstract
The presentation will focus on extractivism in real life and in science fiction, looking at different countries and scenarios, different stories and their different scenarios and the diverse ways in which they play out in both fact and fiction.
Biography
Mame Bougouma Diene is a Franco –Senegalese American humanitarian with a fondness for progressive metal, tattoos and policy analysis. He is the francophone spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society (http://www.africansfs.com/), the French language editor for Omenana Magazine, and a regular columnist at Strange Horizons. You can find his fiction and nonfiction work in Omenana, Galaxies SF, EscapePod, Interzone, TorDotCom and Vector; and in anthologies such as AfroSFv2 & V3 (Storytime), Myriad Lands (Guardbridge Books), Africanfuturism (Brittle Paper), Dominion (Aurelia Leo), Meteotopia (Future Fiction/Co-Futures) and Africa Risen (TorDotCom). His debut collection “Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night” (Clash Books) was nominated for the 2019 Splatterpunk Award. His short story “A Soul of Small Places” co-authored with Woppa Diallo won the 2023 Caine Prize for African Writing. He’s been translated into Italian and Bangla, and he’s currently trying to shove his first novel down his agent’s throat.
This event is part of the Applied African SF project‘s ongoing series of events