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@article{174607,
        author = {Dhivyabharathy S},
        title = {Integrating Indigenous Perspectives in Africanfuturism: A Study of Nnedi Okorafor's The Binti Trilogy},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {236-240},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=174607},
        abstract = {This research article explores Nnedi Okorafor’s The Binti Trilogy (2015-2018), examining how it diverges from other works within African speculative and postcolonial literature.  Okorafor’s work serves as a significant contribution to the contemporary speculative fiction by emphasizing African culture, indigenous knowledge systems, and female agency within futuristic contexts. As the protagonist, Binti – a Himba girl from Namibia – undergoes on a transformative intergalactic journey, her narrative becomes a metaphor for cultural negotiation, identity politics, and decolonial imagination. The article presents The Binti Trilogy as a prominent African futurist text that challenges Eurocentric narratives in science fiction and highlights alternative ways of knowing and understanding the world. It is a work of speculative fiction, and also a political and philosophical discourse deeply rooted in African realities and cosmologies. It demonstrates how Africanfuturist narratives reshape global science fiction by introducing alternative cosmologies, knowledge systems, and courses of cultural survival. This study contributes to the field of African speculative literature and advocates for a deeper integration of indigenous perspectives within critical literary discourse.},
        keywords = {Africanfuturism, identity of black women, hybridity, science fiction.},
        month = {March},
        }