Published Online:March 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJES140325
DOI:10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.1.162-170
Author Name:Saba Sangeen and Jaya Shrivastava
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:162-170
LaGuardia (2018-2019) is an Africanfuturist comic series depicting a world where aliens coexist with humans. It follows Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka, an African American woman fleeing Nigeria while smuggling an alien plant to the US. Amid an impending alien war, Future navigates motherhood and her hybrid human-alien identity. Using posthumanism, this paper examines Nnedi Okorafor’s vision of an egalitarian future where aliens, animals, and machines challenge anthropocentric ideologies. The Africanfuturist narrative expands black subjectivities beyond normative human modes, integrating nonhuman entities into a multifaceted techno-future. Through this lens, the story reimagines belonging, identity, and coexistence beyond rigid human exceptionalism.
Afrofuturism is a broad term that encompasses different cultural production forms such as music, visual arts, cinema, and literature.