Death of the Author: Nnedi Okorafor with Faith Adiele
Thu, Feb 13
|San Francisco
Join Litquake and Museum of the African Diaspora for a memorable event celebrating Okorafor’s spectacular new work of fiction.


Time & Location
Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 PM
San Francisco, 601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
About The Event
“What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?”
—Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor’s brilliant, galaxy-spanning stories have earned some of speculative fiction’s most prestigious awards. Her visionary writing resonates across genres, from comics, screenplays, and short fiction to works for young readers. Now, with Death of the Author, Okorafor ventures into literary fiction while still keeping Africanfuturism at the center of her work—and the results are extraordinary, called “spellbinding” by Zakiya Dalila Harris in the New York Times.
At the center of Okorafor’s inventive new novel is Zelu, a frustrated novelist who ventures on a whim (and a haze of pot smoke) into the world of science fiction—and winds up with a publishing contract beyond any aspiring novelist’s wildest dreams. Her novel, Rusted Robots, is set in a postapocalyptic Lagos, where a humanoid robot named Ankara learns a terrible…