I’m also asking questions about human nature. My African Immortals novels always challenge me because of the fantasy aspect, historical research and character quirks related to their incredible longevity. Just to make it interesting this time around, I’ve added a pop star named Phoenix I introduced in a completely unrelated novel entitled Joplin’s Ghost. I didn’t know the series was going to continue!)Įach novel is intended as a stand-alone novel for new readers, but as the author I have to continually check in to make sure I know who’s who and what’s what. My Soul to Keep was followed by The Living Blood in 2001 and, finally, Blood Colony in 2008. What would it be like if we could live forever? The series follows the lives of mortals and immortals who have contact with Living Blood that can heal any ailment almost instantly, examining issues of life, loss and mortality. Writing Blood Prophecy is a particular challenge in that regard because it is the fourth book in my African Immortals series that began with My Soul to Keep in 1997. After all, we forget our characters’ voices, occupations and quirks.

Finally, the study highlights the feminist approach to heroism in the stated texts.Recently, I heard Terry McMillan read from Getting to Happy, this fall’s forthcoming sequel to Waiting to Exhale-and she mentioned that she had to re-read her watershed novel to research the new one. The study will also look into the use of science fiction and African belief systems as manifestations of people’s collective consciousness due to a shared common history amongst all Africans. The following texts ‘Black Panther’, Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali and Waiting for the Rain.will help in analysing the significance of supernatural forces in modern African mythological stories. This study therefore seeks to show that heroism in African myths can best be understood by people in the society that produce these myths. This has led to the realisation that African belief systems can be analysed through past histories and help to interrogate the trauma of Africans and Africa’s past. Afrofuturism postulation has given critics new scopes of looking at African mythology as functional stories that reflect on Africans’ belief systems. This is due to the contention that supernatural powers strip away heroism from the stories. Eurocentric studies of African stories show that African stories with supernatural intervention are canonised as non-heroic stories due to western misconceptions that the presence of supernatural powers render the stories non-heroic.

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