Unearthing Gaia’s fury in Africanfuturist short fictions: ‘Eclipse Our Sins’ and ‘Oduduwa: The Return’
The article offers an ecocritical analysis of two Africanfuturist short fictions within the framework of apocalypticism, decoloniality and the Gaia hypothesis. While in Tlotlo Tsamaase’s ‘Eclipse Our Sins’ (2019), the Earth teeters on the verge of total societal and ecological collapse, Imade Iyamu’s ‘Oduduwa: The Return’ (2019) presents a post-apocalyptic world where humans are colonized by a superior alien race. Both narratives present an eco-horror manifested through Gaia’s vengeful disposition against ecological injustices. Upholding various African myths on Mother Earth and contextualizing those as opposed to colonialism, racism and otherisation, the article positions Africanfuturism as a decolonial option against Anthropocentric/western epistemes.
Authors
- Shri Krishan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3923-953X)
- Sumanta Pramanik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6618-6678)
Institutions
- National Institute of Technology Durgapur (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00135_1
- Primary Topic
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00