Nedine Moonsamy is a senior lecturer in the English literature department at the University of Pretoria. She is writing a monograph on contemporary South African fiction and also conducts research on science fiction in Africa. Her debut novel, The Unfamous Five, is published by Modjaji Books (2019). This article is based on Moonsamy’s chapter in the new book Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (Ohio State University Press).