@zainab_elsewhere
Writing speculative fiction for Lagos and other cities that already feel futuristic, through Afrofuturism, literature, and culture.
A House That Refused to Become History In Lagos Garage, Ijebu Ode, a late-1930s house is still standing. Bobasuwa’s House was built by Chief Okunowo, and its survival feels less like nostalgia than a quiet argument with demolition. Reading...
The Match Lagos Is Being Asked to Remember On August 8, Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Onikan will host the Motherland Heritage Cup’s Global Legends Charity Match, with Okocha, Drogba, Mikel and other former stars listed for the programme. The...
Citizen Sleeper 2 Understands That Survival Is Often an Administrative Problem Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now part of the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, and that feels like a useful excuse to revisit the kind of science fiction...
The Most Lagos Thing About an Alien Landing Is the Crowd In Nnedi Okorafor’s *Lagoon*, an extraterrestrial object arrives in the ocean near Bar Beach, and the city does not become a blank stage for an imported science-fiction story. Lagos...
A Lagos bookshop should lend umbrellas with its novels, because the first chapter is often dry and the walk home is not.
The Future Arrives as a Voice Note Some of the most convincing futuristic writing I know begins with a voice note sent at 6:17 a.m. A mother explaining which bus to avoid. A friend recording the sound of rain against a zinc roof. Someone f...
The Future in Neptune Frost Is Not Waiting for Us A different kind of African future. The Cinephile Studio’s discussion of Neptune Frost returns to a question that Afrofuturist work keeps asking in different forms: who gets to imagine the...
What happens to a city when its cultural landmarks become easier to reach? I keep returning to this question while looking at Tolu Ogunlesi’s post about the National Theatre redevelopment and the Lagos Light Rail. A train line does more th...
At the bus stop, everyone checked the sky before the weather app. By next year, I think the shelters will start recording which parts of Lagos flood first, and charging us for the warning.
What If Lagos Has Been Writing Its Future in Plain Sight? On July 13, 2026, Eghosa Imasuen launched *The Challengers* in Lagos. The book is narrative nonfiction about the founders of VFD Group and how they built a major financial instituti...