I changed it because I didn’t think people would get the joke. I suspected people would assume I was talking about categories…when I was not. Also, I didn’t want conversation about the novel centered around the term.

Big Note: I’d initially named my novel “The Africanfuturist” as a play on the word, since RUSTED ROBOTS is about sentient robots in the future in Nigeria. The title actually WAS NOT about the term “africanfuturism”.

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is an ARB’s 2025 Notable Book, 🥰📖🤖🐬🇳🇬🇺🇸. Full list here: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

My daughter’s in the UK and spotted this magpie. She knew to send me a photo because I’d totally oooh and ahhh! I sooo oooh and ahhhed, 😍.

I’m fascinated by Nicki Minaj’s political choices, heh. It’s not surprising, but it’s interesting how such people can throw their own people under a bus for whatever reason. Never been a fan of hers (don’t care for her form of “rap” music) and I’m glad.

I refilled the hummingbird feeders last night (I never do it during the day; they like to dive bomb). The gila woodpeckers ALWAYS are the first to discover the fresh sugar water.

I think I detest the response of "I'm sorry you went through that" when I share an experience. It' really infuriates me, lol. It feels dismissive and like I've been heaped with a stinking, heavy pile of pity. IJS.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

It’s been this all day for me, heehee. Can’t get enough of it. 🥴🥊

Another beautiful sunset in Phoenix. 🐦‍🔥 🌅

Hummingbird of the day. Saw this one during my walk today. A female Anna’s hummingbird, ❤️.

This is Arlo, a dog who lives in my neighborhood. Isn’t he cute?!? I see him all the time and he MUST come to say hello every time. 😊

I’m reading @nnedi.bsky.social’s “death of the author” right now and this popped up in my feed. Huh. Life imitating art. Sort of. It’s a great book imo. Not quite finished yet. Go get it from your local library or as a Christmas pressie ;)

Just finished Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social and it's great strong recommend if you're interested in stories, technology, stories about technology, stories about stories about technology, and how we are shaped by embodied experience

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Just saw this idiotic post on Facebook with THOUSANDS of likes. This narrative they are pushing about the entire country of Nigeria is so racist, twisted and fucked up (just as the travel bans are). The ignorance about what’s happening there, why, how and where is ASTOUNDING and not surprising.

The mountain is so green now. Funny thing is, I’m not sure I like it [I’m talking about in the context of my walks], 😆. It’s cold [high of 70sF] & all the interesting animals have left for the winter or are hibernating. I miss the fence lizard, quail, roadrunners, even the local owl has been awol.

A beautiful katydid...who doesn't want to be seen. 🤔

The UK paperback (Gollancz) of my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR will be released in January.

Look at the family of desert hippity-hops enjoying the rare greenery, 😊🏜️🌵🐰.

Was on an episode of One54 Africa yesterday. If you haven’t listened to this podcast, oh you must; it discusses pertinent topics with nuance, humor and genuine curiosity. The episodes always start with palm wine and chin chin, 😊. Find the podcast series here: youtube.com/@one54africa...

Making up a name like Nkumbe Mntumbi as a slur for African writers is wild!

…meanwhile, on Twitter, things continue to fester.

I just saw a large raptor with a white chest glowing orange in the sunset peached atop a tall thin palm tree trunk. Argh, I wish I’d gotten a photo! 😫

So I’d never watched the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before. I vaguely knew what it was about…kinda. I had a flight and nothing to do so I started it…and kept watching it when I got to my hotel. And continued this morning. Wow.

This was pretty extensive. Happy to see DEATH OF THE AUTHOR in the mix! :-) lithub.com/the-ultimate...

These days, if you don’t have a big ass, it’s because you “don’t go to the gym”. Do people realize this same thing was said in the 90s for the opposite reason? It’s all the same shit: Make women feel less than, so she’ll buy more stuff and be easier to manipulate. Just go to the gym (or don’t).

Me, just before a big and important Zoom meeting involving a book I wrote. It went well. 🫨😮‍💨😃

utterly incapable of grace

This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

My publisher gifted me with this special edition of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR as a Christmas present, 🥹. It looks like one of the classic tomes in the bookcase at my parents' house. I read MOBY DICK because it was leatherbound like this one.

I post a new photo of myself and the first comment (from someone I don’t even know) starts with “Whenever I see this picture, I …”, as if I’ve posted the photo before. Sometimes, I wonder why I bother, lol.

My little guys. Always in the mix. Everything I do here is observed by them. 😊

I want to scream this from the rooftops. I'm so tired of this "Girls mature faster" bullshit mythology being spewed even by intelligent people. And we all know why people WANT to believe it...yet people clutch their pearls about monsters like Epstein and Trump. It's ALL connected.

Pleased to see DEATH OF THE AUTHOR on this Best of the Year list. 😊🇳🇬

I used to play at this tennis club that was a place where the top tennis players like Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe would practice at when in town. Why did the owner on that club just comment on one of my social media platforms, 😆. WTF.

If you say ANYTHING to me like, "Did you know that Roland Barthes had an essay called 'The Death of the Author'?", you deserve whatever response you get from me (note: this often gets a Muted Forever response).

My publisher gifted me with this special edition of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR as a Christmas present, 🥹. It looks like one of the classic tomes in the bookcase at my parents' house. I read MOBY DICK because it was leatherbound like this one.

I posted on Facebook about my daughter dragging me to the mall two days ago. Look what Google's AI turned the post into for click bait. WTF is happening to the Internet, man? Seriously. And my post had NOTHING to do with my disability (I'm also NOT a "lower limb amputee).

My latest interview. This one with Gary Wolfe, whom I’ve know for, like, ever. Was still recovering fron my jet lag after flying back from India (worst jet lag of my life, 😮‍💨😅), so who knows what the hell I said. jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-70...

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Day 5 of #LibFaves25 and my pick is hard to put into a set genre. DEATH OF AN AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor is a story within a story - an author who is transformed by a prosthetic and the book she writes about a lonely robot. It makes you think and entertained at the same time. Gorgeous writing.

My Writing 101 students came to a consensus today on their "must remain on the syllabus" text, and they elected Nnedi Okorafor's "Mother of Invention."

I just got HANDWRITTEN feedback on something I wrote (he scanned in the pages he wrote on) and I’m DELIGHTED. I didn’t realize how much I missed that kind of thing. 😃!

Next year, I’m doing the Terry Lectureship at Yale in March/April. It’s a century-old series that’s hosted some truly heavyweight thinkers. Wild to be stepping onto that stage 😅 philosophy.yale.edu/events/2026-...

Finally got around to Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social yesterday evening and somehow someway I just kept failing to put it down and all of a sudden it was 3:30am and I was done. Magnificent.

Day 4 of #LibFaves25 DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor. I just finished this and love it. Both straightforward lit fic and a sci-fi mindfuck. Swaps back and forth between an author and the book she writes. The two stories start blending together. The narration was also lovely in the audiobook.

Oh, I just finished @nnedi.bsky.social "Death of the Author" and ...hooo buddy, can't recommend it enough. 3 books in one, captivating, heart wrenching. Treat yourself to this treasure, post haste.

Also NONE of this conversation is about hair.

There’s nothing wrong with any of it. I simply write africanfuturism and the distinction matters: nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html?m=1