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The choice of using
12019-05-04T19:29:49-07:00Dawn Hicks851fbe6ff47c68a2de1a4f5f7b6db729bc4d659a105811plain2019-05-04T19:29:50-07:00Dawn Hicks851fbe6ff47c68a2de1a4f5f7b6db729bc4d659aThe choice of using Nigeria as the country chosen by high order beings to introduce advance technology was a brilliant move by Okorafor. It turns the idea of who is entitled to receive superior knowledge on its head. When reading about Nigeria, the country sounds chaotic, with cultures colliding, traffic rubbernecking, and people everywhere living out in society. Not like Americans tucked away in front of their TVs. When the aliens introduce themselves in Lagos Nigeria the chaos gets amped. I kept wandering are they going make it or burn it all down? The location is the ultimate reminder that America is not the definition of a Global society.
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12019-04-08T10:43:23-07:00Matthew Hicks6a557b24a786aa0747938d11b6ae37e5645b8818"Othering" in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon19An exploration of some of the ways colonialism has left an imprint on Nigeriaimage_header2021-01-12T18:48:35-08:00Mary Laffidybbaa6fac1a2d68d7d027a0bc645072eb108dbf5c