Venue : Auditorium 1
13:00–14:00 | Kelechi Okafor and Jeffrey Boakye on power, suspense and Black imagination
What if the stories that take us beyond reality are also the sharpest tools for exposing it?
Kelechi Okafor and Jeffrey Boakye enter the thrilling space where speculative fiction, suspense and social truth collide. Here, buried histories return, imagined futures reveal present-day power, and placing Black characters at the centre transforms the entire story.
Why are genre stories so effective at confronting what society would rather conceal? What becomes possible when Black writers imagine beyond the limits of the world as it currently exists?
Expect a sharp, provocative conversation about fear, identity, resistance and the radical power of Black storytelling.
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