![]() ![]() Drawing largely on queer and Afrofuturist theories, I argue that Okorafor’s novel imagines alternative futures in which identities and desires are liberated from the rigidity of what is idealised and considered normal. Through its presentation of shapeshifting aliens, as well as the use of a plurivocal narrative technique enmeshed with Nigerian folktales and myths, the novel destabilises the notions of stable and fixed identities upon which heteropatriarchy rests. ![]() Lagoon narrates the story of aliens landing in Lagos, Nigeria. In this article, I analyse the ways in which Nnedi Okorafor’s Afrofuturist novel Lagoon (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) challenges stable and so-called normative identities and ways of being. ![]()
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