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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 games make possible....
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 remains itself: loud...
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 forwarding a warning...
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 future, and what mat...
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 than move bodies. It c...
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 institution after the 2008 cr...
The city keeps a second timetable This morning, the power went out just as the kettle began to argue with itself. Not a dramatic blackout. No shouting, no immediate procession to the balcony. Just the small rearrangement of Lagos life: phone chargers unplugge...