Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa
نندی اوکورافور: داستانهای علمی تخیلی که آفریقای آینده را تجسم میکند
Nnedi Okorafor weaves African cultures into the evocative settings and memorable characters of her science fiction work for kids and adults. Full bio
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from a traditional family
از خانوادهای سنتی
university in the galaxy,
چند سیاره دورتر
from my "Binti" novella trilogy:
سه گانه من «بینتی» است:
and said a silent prayer.
و توی دلم دعا کردم.
to do if it didn't work.
اگر کار نکرد چکار کنم.
or, more likely, a grain of sand,
با احتمال بیشتر یک دانه شن
I had to restart it over and over
را چند بار خاموش و روشن میکردم
please not now," I thought.
با خودم فکر کردم.
and I held my breath.
من نفسم را حبس کردم.
slowly rose from the sand.
the baggage-lifting force.
بارو بندیل را تولید کرد.
to the shuttle on time.
with my index finger and knelt down,
از پیشانیام پاک کردم و زانو زدم،
red clay into it.
along the dark desert road.
در امتداد جاده بیابانی تاریک.
I would make it there on time.
به موقع میرسیدم.
I paused and shut my eyes.
و چشمهایم را بستم.
was pressing on my shoulders.
روی شانه هایم سنگینی میکرد.
part of myself for the first time
از وجودم را در کل عمرم
and they had no clue.
و آنها از همه جا بیخبر بودند.
except for my younger sister and brother,
یک برادر و خواهر کوچکتر از من
I'd do such a thing in a million years.
تصور نمیکردند چنین کاری کنم.
what I'd done and where I was going,
و به کجا میرفتم،
would growl to each other
به همدیگر غرولند میکردند
to set foot in their home again.
پا به خانه آنها بگذارم.
who lived down the road
پایین جاده زندگی میکردند
the entire bloodline.
برای کل طایفه بودم.
to the transporter,
around each ankle jingled noisily,
when I didn't touch it.
sweat forming on my brow.
عرق به پیشانی داشتم.
sitting atop the force field a shove.
بالای سرم امتحان کردم.
and I breathed another sigh of relief.
از آفریقا،
of the Himba ethnic group.
into a university on another planet,
of her people in her veins,
ways, even the land on her very skin,
و حتی خاکی که روی پوستش است،
she becomes not other, but more.
بجای این که عوض شود
and then becoming more
a different type of science fiction.
از علمی تخیلی نامید.
classic science fiction and Afrofuturism
تخیلی کلاسیک و آفروفیوچریسم را توضیح دهم
intelligent creatures on earth.
موجودات زمین هستند.
from a different evolutionary line,
خط تکاملی متفاوتی میآید.
of various forms of science fiction.
علمی تخیلی گفت.
societies, social issues,
می پردازد،
what's within our planet.
و آنچه در سیاره ما اتفاق میافتد.
and most effective forms
و موثرترین اشکال
«چطور میشود اگر؟»
has the same ancestral bloodline,
این خط و نسب اجدادی را ندارند،
science fiction,
Robert Heinlein, etc.
روبرت هین لین و غیره حرف میزنیم.
wrote science fiction?
داستان علمی تخیلی بنویسد.
read much science fiction.
colonization and seeing aliens as others.
و دیدن بیگانهها بعنوان غیرخودیها بودم.
who looked like me in those narratives.
را در آن روایتها نمیدیدم.
to seek education from extraterrestrials.
تحصیل از فرا کیهانیها ترک میکند.
a line of classic space opera narratives,
کلاسیک اپرای فضایی را دنبال کنم
leave the planet on her own terms.
با شرایط خودش از زمین میرود.
had different ancestors,
Nigerian immigrant parents
of classic science fiction.
that led me to write science fiction.
که علمی تخیلی نویس شوم.
to Nigeria in the late '90s.
که به نیجریه در اواخر دهه ۹۰ داشتم.
with my family since I was very young.
به نیجریه سفر میکردیم.
even wrote took place in Nigeria.
در نیجریه اتفاق افتاد.
و فانتزی نوشتم
cosmologies and spiritualities.
و احضار ارواح .
the role of technology in Nigeria:
در نیجریه کردم:
را اشغال کرده بودند،
to my cousin's desktop computer
دسک تاپ عموزادهام متصل بود
was always going on and off.
من را غیرخودی میکرد
that most Nigerians saw as normal.
عادی تلقی میشد برانگیخته شوم.
gave birth to stories.
به تولد داستانهایم شد.
به لاگوس در نیجریه میآمدند؟
from my novel, "Lagoon."
to the great mess happening in Lagos,
اینجا در جریان است.
had portable, chargeable,
ارتباطی قابل حمل، قابل شارژ،
communicating, connected devices,
and posted online in some way,
بنحوی انلاین
is connected like a spider's web.
به هم متصل است.
dominated every international news source,
منابع خبری بین المللی حاکم بود،
circle, pyramid and trapezoid.
شبکههای اجتماعی، حلقه، هرم و ذوزنقه.
past, present and future.
and ancestors who dwelled in Lagos.
که در لاگوس زندگی کردند.
of the people of Lagos.
the supreme spider artist,
هنرمند عنکبوتی معظم است
beneath the city of Lagos,
در لاگوس زندگی میکند،
of extraterrestrials coming to Lagos.
به لاگوس میآیند را میبافد.
who was the size of a house
the past, present and future
and be a part of the story.
و جزئی از داستان شود.
بسیار ریشهدار
and sociopolitical changes it'll inspire.
اجتماعی که القاء میکند را تصور کنید.
science fiction can be a will to power.
ارادهای برای قدرت باشد.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nnedi Okorafor - Science fiction writerNnedi Okorafor weaves African cultures into the evocative settings and memorable characters of her science fiction work for kids and adults.
Why you should listen
Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism. Born in the US to Nigerian immigrant parents, Okorafor is known for weaving African cultures into creative settings and memorable characters. Her books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for best novel), Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for best novel), Kabu Kabu (a Publisher's Weekly best book for Fall 2013), Akata Witch (an Amazon.com best book of the year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature) and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner).
Her 2016 novel The Book of Phoenix is an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist, while the first book in the Binti Trilogy won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella. Her children’s book Chicken in the Kitchen won an Africana Book Award. The final installment of the Binti Trilogy, titled The Night Masquerade, will be released in September 2017, and the sequel to Akata Witch (titled Akata Warrior) is was published in October 2017. Meanwhile, her book Who Fears Death has been optioned by HBO, with Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin as executive producer.
Okorafor is a full professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY).
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