TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skinned" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman. 

JF - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - no. 53 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.

JF - Catapult Magazine UR - https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person N1 -

Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74. 

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