Advocacy Campaign Document Feb 2015

The African Science Fiction Project

Putting Science into Africa’s Culture

Producing Africa’s Best Leaders

Africa's Best Leaders are Science Developers

An Advocacy Campaign Document

Prepared by

Technics Ikechi Nwosu (Founder)

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“On the eve of the millennium The Times asked a number of prominent scientists

to identify major issues in science leading into the C21st. Professor Susan

Greenfield of Oxford University and the first female head of the Royal Institution

suggested the scientific breakthrough of the C21st would be: "The engagement of

the public in science and the expression of scientific ideas in a way they can

understand and contribute to"

We believe science fiction can be used to help demystify science, highlight

its social and cultural context, and act as a bridge to public consciousness,

providing an opportunity to tackle pseudoscience head-on.

…Why is science rarely appreciated as a cultural activity at all? If science is

to be restored to its rightful place in our cultural heritage then science fiction can

help to play an important part in bringing science "...out of the laboratory and into

the culture." ”

– Professor Mark Brake, Martin Griffiths

Centre for Astronomy & Science Education, University of Glamorgan,

South Wales, UK

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Proposed Board of Trustees

1. Bishop Athan Azubuike

2. Professor B.E.B. Nwoke

3. Engineer Ignatius Mbah

4. Dr L. U. Nwosu

5. Dr Chris Esomonu

Networks and Linkages


PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR

PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

PROPOSED LIFE PATRON OF THE AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION

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LIFE PATRON OF THE AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION

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LIFE PATRON OF THE AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION


Engineer Ezekiel Izuogu, Inventor of Africa’s First Car (Z

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Engineer Ezekiel Izuogu, Star of The African Science Fiction ProjectInventor of Africa’s First Car (Z-600) and Emagnetodynamics Technology

Z-600

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Star of The African Science Fiction Project

Technology

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Emagnetodynamics Technology1

Ezekiel Izuogu is the inventor of the subject of Emagnetodynamics – the branch of Physics that

studies the conversion of the energy of static magnetic fields into work. The inventor has

demonstrated that the self-sustaining Emagnetodynamics machine is, indeed, the famed but

elusive PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE.

More importantly, the theory of Emagnetodynamics violates the foundational laws of

Physics and Engineering, namely the Law of Conservation of energy and the second law of

Thermodynamics.

The subject of Emagnetodynamics presents some earth-shaking implications for

scientists the world over, namely: the science textbook you are reading may be outdated and

incorrect!!

Facts about the Emagnetodynamics Invention

1. Production of electricity at zero cost. According to the inventor, “The new invention

will offer uninterrupted power supply at no cost.”

2. The self-Sustaining Emagnetodynamics Machine was made possible after over 30

years of research and work.

3. Already, the invention has received patents from 104 countries and is recognized by

the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In the inventor’s words,

“Under the direction of WIPO, patents for this invention have now been filed in 104

nations of the world.”

4. According to the inventor, “…some 33 years ago, while I worked as a missionary

itinerant evangelist of the gospel in Benin City, the Almighty God gave me a vision of

1 Sources: Emagnetodynamics website http://www.emagnetodynamics.com and “Ezekiel Izuogu’s Self-Sustaining

Emagnetodynamics Machine” http://www.rexresearch.com

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a machine that could help solve the energy problems of the world. Right there in

1980, I received the two laws of Emagnetodynamics.” The machine became possible

after he successfully turned the two laws of Emagnetodynamics into interpretable

work.

5. The inventor further explains: “By June 5, 1982 I had succeeded in turning these two

laws into a working machine. It was very exciting but because of the frightening and

intimidating effects of the well known science laws, I was scared to publish my

findings. I wished to work more and prove these things very well. So, I worked for

another 27 years before I approached the World Intellectual Property Organisation

for a patent.”

6. WIPO describes this invention as “the self-sustaining Emagnetodynamics machine

[which] utilizes a theory that is different from the age-old theory on which electric

motors have been built for over five hundred years since the days of the great

inventor and scientist, Michael Faraday.”

7. WIPO also adds: "The present invention is a magnet motor that utilizes the

inventor's first and second laws of Emagnetodynamics as well as the inventor's horse

orientation theory of magnetism."

8. The implication is that the Emagnetodynamics invention can be used to drive electric

cars, electric trains, trolleys, electric fans, and virtually every device that runs on

conventional electric motor so that people can use these systems at no energy cost.

Again, miniaturized versions of this machine can be imbedded in television sets and

music systems so that these devices will no longer require electricity to operate.

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HRM Eze Prof Chuka Okonkwo (R.I.P) Former Chairman Imo State Poverty

Alleviation Programme , Former Head of ICEP Imo State University, Former Dean

Faculty of Education IMSU, First Friend of The African Science Fiction Project.

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PREFACE

The African Science Fiction Project is designed to develop a new culture in Nigeria and Africa,

and that is the culture of Science and Technology for the good of mankind. The scientific and

technological culture is the supreme global culture without which no country on earth can rise

to first class world power unless it gets itself deeply initiated into this culture.

With deep regret the makers of the African Science Fiction Project recognized that

Nigerians and Africans in general were far from appreciating the significance of belonging to

this noble and uplifting cult during the colonial and post colonial decades; and that the lack of

effective science and technology in Africa is the major reason why “Things Fall Apart” and the

centre cannot hold.

Africa is the giant animal, and the nations within it are organs. Most of the cells in the

organs are suffering from knowledge-deficiency diseases or an infection caused by lack of

scientific and technological knowledge. Likewise, the present state of the large Africa-animal

spells sickness, paralysis, and distemper of various discords, such that she is in deep pain,

slumber, and disability.

However, all hope is not lost. A new elixir can revivify all the organs and their nerve

strands. New brain vaccines of African Science Fiction literature can be invented which, when

administered the continental animal, will cure all neurons, energize the nerve fibres, and

awaken the Animal to full consciousness and health.

Thus, a new Afro-scientific class of literature i.e. realistic African Science Fiction books –

not Science Fantasy books, mark well – where Africans are heroes of no tragic flaws but

protagonists of the science world, has been created. This shall serve to provoke science and

technology consciousness among its readers and shall invade the African Mind in order to

overhaul the African Intellect in its search for the Ultimate Solvent to the Granite of African

Underdevelopment.

African Science Fiction must when necessary promote the significance of Group

Intelligence as a key-formula in the dynamics of an impending Revolution. Sincere and

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dedicated Group Intelligence, in its perfect

synchronization, solves the mathematics of

racial success!

Such group intelligence as shall be

governed by a technocratic pyramid of law,

assembled by the power of the heavy weight

private sector, and approved by the political

titans of the state, in general, could make

significant shifts to the cell-lines of African

development.

Henceforth, a superior ray of torch light

goes forth into the masses – it is Ideal talent

hunt in all Africa. Whoever is exceptionally

endowed with imaginative powers in science

fiction writing, and is able to produce real,

Africanized Science Fiction in its own vintage

shall occupy a seat in our round table of heroes.

Obinna C John Ebere

(Chair, African Science Fiction Writers’ League)

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Objectives of The African Science Fiction Project

a. To provoke science and technology consciousness among African

grassroots.

b. To invade the African mind with science imaginations in order to overhaul

the African intellect in its search for the ultimate solvent to the granite of

African underdevelopment.

c. To use the imagination in works of fiction (novels and movies) to demystify

science in African states by associating great scientific progress with the

Blackman.

d. To bring science in African states out of the laboratory and into the culture

in order to put science in its rightful place as part of our cultural heritage.

e. To practice what we preach – to lead by example – by putting money into

science business.

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Political Significance of The African Science Fiction Project

a. The African Science Fiction Project is an Africa Rebranding Project. The

African Science Fiction Project is an Africa Renaissance Project.

b. The African Science Fiction Project is conceived as an African Scientific

Revolution, and in this view it represents the cheapest way to achieve or

set off a 21st Century Scientific Revolution in African states.

c. The African Science Fiction Project will cause the scientific temper to form

in our people, including our leaders.

d. The African Science Fiction Project plays the role of demystification of

science in African societies. It celebrates African states and peoples in

fiction as great actors in the ever unfolding story of science. This is a

method of visualization.

e. The African Science Fiction Project represents a new conceptualization of

the state as the scientific state recommended for developing countries to

adopt in order to “catch up” with the trend of development in the 21st

Century and beyond, which is achieved by replacing their circular state

constitutions with “the scientific state constitution.”

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Slogans of The African Science Fiction Project

a. The African Science Fiction Project – Producing Africa’s Best Leaders.

b. The African Science Fiction Project – The African Scientific Revolution.

c. The African Science Fiction Project – Stirring up the African science Spirit.

d. The African Science Fiction Project – Celebrating science-thinking in Africa.

e. The African Science Fiction Project – Bringing science-thinking to the African

grassroots.

f. The African Science Fiction Project – The African Visualization Project.

Imagine it. Create it. Let’s visualize Africa!!!

g. The African Science Fiction Project – Bringing Africa’s tomorrow now:

taking a leap into Africa’s future.

h. The African Science Fiction Project – Putting Science into Africa’s Culture.

i. The African Science Fiction Project – Celebrating Science as Africa’s Culture.

j. The African Science Fiction Project – The African Science Consciousness

Programme.

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We must create science fiction

For Africa

About Africa

On Africa

Concerning Africa

Regarding Africa

Supporting Africa

And which glorify Africa

As a man continually says that he is, so he becomes. The same

goes for a nation. Collective imagination created by African Science

Fiction is a way African nations may continually say that they are.

TECHNICS IKECHI NWOSU


In 1998 I awoke to the realization that

in-all negative images. Images of states that are non

the continuous creation and consumption of science, images of failed states, images of warring

states, images of militarized states, were the order of the day. I was so very worried about this

because I understood the impact these images have

generations who are made to ‘see’ and ‘believe’ that Africa has failed vis

accomplishments of other peoples and races of the world. So I imagined that images wherein

Africans are portrayed as great scientists, inventors, and even imitators should be used to feed

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In 1998 I awoke to the realization that images of Africa that exist anywhere in the world are all

all negative images. Images of states that are non-participants in the global competition in


images of militarized states, were the order of the day. I was so very worried about this

tood the impact these images have on the growing ones,

made to ‘see’ and ‘believe’ that Africa has failed vis



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images of Africa that exist anywhere in the world are all-

participants in the global competition in


images of militarized states, were the order of the day. I was so very worried about this

on the growing ones, the younger

made to ‘see’ and ‘believe’ that Africa has failed vis-à-vis the



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the minds of the younger generations of Africa, and that this would produce a new type of

Africans who would believe and equate themselves to the Caucasoid and Mongoloid races of

the world (of whom the British and the Japanese are archetypes respectively).

Actually this pattern of thinking came upon me by way of an accidental discovery. In

November of 1997 I wrote a short fiction that I called Timethinker: Children of Africa. The

events in Timethinker took place in Africa around 2059. Ideas in the work include Experiment at

Sahara, which is about making the Sahara desert green; NoiseMaster, which is about a device

that could produce a force-field wherein sound is inaudible to the human ear and which

produced a new type of classroom as well as a new justice system; and Timethinker, which

itself is a piece of software that became a secondary school subject. The initiators and

executors of these ideas are Africans. Soon it dawned upon me that the work I had done was

probably the first of its kind and that it fell in the category of science fiction literature.

So I realized I had struck upon a great challenge. But my efforts to be sure were less

than concerted. I kept thinking that somebody would take it upon himself as his job, somebody

who has the wherewithal to prosecute the idea. In that year I tried to form a group that I

named G-500. Again, in pursuit of this idea, I made efforts in 2003 to start the awareness on the

Internet. Then I called it Scientific Africa. In 2006 I came up with the name ‘Sci-fi Africa’ and

built a simple web site for it. After this last effort I decided to throw in the sponge and chided

myself for thinking that the idea is really my business and not some other person’s job to

prosecute, some other person who is ‘well-connected’ and who has the requisite financial

muscle.

Around the middle of 2008 I realized one day with a jolt that the idea, from the time I

first got it in its crude form in 1998, was now ten years old inside me. I panicked when I realized

that ten years after I conceived it, there were no such books in the market, not to speak of

movies (which I conceived in 2003).

Today, several interests are now part of the Scifi Africa project and it has been

christened ‘The African Science Fiction Project.’ We are poised and ready to launch the project

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first in Imo State before it is launched elsewhere. The support of Governments is very much

sought after as some form of political power is required to make African Science Fiction the

choice literature texts in our schools and institutions of higher learning.

Scifi Africa is an agency that has its purpose as the creation of a brand new genre of

literature in Africa, namely African Science Fiction. By ‘African Science Fiction’ we mean science

fiction stories wherein the setting is an African society and the protagonists and other actors

are Africans. This type of literature creates a scientific temper in our people and with this the

flowering of science in our land. Our school children and university students can be made to

become readers of African Science Fiction literature through its inclusion as approved literature

texts.

It is said that man resembles that which he gazes upon. Stories about science wherein

our people are the architects and actors have the power to get into our personality and begin

shaping our behavioural pattern. In this manner, African Science Fiction will produce in our

people value orientations that are sympathetic to science.

TECHNICS IKECHI NWOSU

(Founder)

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What is Scifi Africa?

Scifi Africa is a new movement in African literature. Its focus is

the creation of an entirely new type of fiction, namely African

Science Fiction. It is futuristic in outlook and captures a vision of

an Africa that is a technological giant in the world. In Scifi

Africa, Africans are masters of Science and Invention.

Scifi Africa will produce works of fiction (books and movies) that

envision Africa’s future. In the future so envisioned, Africa

expands the horizons of science through her extremely developed

science systems and systems of innovation. In this future too, each

country is organized on the parameters of a scientific state or

technoscientific state, which include the scientific state

constitution. Scifi Africa will drive the imagination of millions of

Africans to create the visualized future.

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Scifi Africa

Statement of Purpose Books and movies such as produced by Scifi Africa project images

of African leadership and scientific and technological attainments

of Africa of the future in a manner that has the capacity to infect

the imagination and consciousness of Africans of today.

Scifi Africa as a new movement in African literature is committed

to public communication of science and technology and the

inculcation of scientific and technological temper among the African

masses through the creation of African Science Fiction. In the

first twelve months of its existence, Scifi Africa will produce

African Science Fiction books in the order of 200 titles.

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A Definition of Science Fiction

A science fiction is a short story or novel which deals with imaginary future developments in

science and their effects on human life. The stories must be somewhat plausible, otherwise it

ventures into the field of fantasy. Science fiction therefore is distinct from science fantasy.

Science fiction plot creates scenarios that are different from those of the present day and the

known past.

Science fiction is produced when our imaginative faculties attempt to construct a bridge

between fact and fiction on the grounds of science. This is what we often refer to as creative

dream. So a science fiction must necessarily entertain as well as arouse our creative

imagination, much as it simultaneously expands our foresight capabilities. By science fiction we

have in mind a variety of literature that is future-oriented wherein the impact of the continuous

production of science on society features as a recurring characteristic.

A number of classical science fiction stories have paved the way for several landmark

inventions. For example, the visualizations of photo enhancement and search technology in

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) foretell contemporary digital image manipulation

technologies by two decades. Again, the engineering activities of NASA have frequently been

founded upon the visions embodied by the Star Trek television series (these visions include

portable communicators for easy communication, digital pads replacing paper, virtual

environments in which we can be immersed, etc). A number of contemporary technologies --

ranging from PDAs to cell phones – have been proved to have adopted their forms and

functions from science fiction. Therefore science fiction visions can be seen as prototypes for

future technological environments.

Collective imagining or collective imagination is a way in which we work together in the

mental world to bring about a future that lies slightly out of our grasp. Science fiction does not

merely anticipate but actively shapes technological futures through its impact on the collective

imagination. Science fiction achieves this through its population of our imaginations with

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evocative science fiction imagery. The aggregate of our individual imaginings forms our

collective imagination. Be it utopian or dystopian, these visions of the future (or science fiction

imagery) shape our collective perceptions and awareness of the relationship between science

and progress and between people and technology, and as such have a profound – albeit

scarcely documented – impact on the formation and development of systems of science in

many countries.

Scholarly analyses of science fiction in its various media such as movie, cartoon, comic,

novel, etc, proceed from the assumption that visions of the future reveal, and are to a great

extent determined by, the present circumstance. This is so because “an account of how we shall

live” is inextricably grounded on axioms about the problems and prospects of the time at which

it is written (Spitulnik, 1993). Science fiction therefore is relative and tailored to its specific

environment. For instance what constitutes science fiction in an African environment (that is

science fiction about an African society) may not be taken as pure science fiction to the

Japanese people and may not interest them.

Science fiction is “a contemporary mode in which the techniques of extrapolation and

speculation are utilized in a narrative form to construct near-future, far-future, or fantastic

worlds in which science, technology, and society intersect” (Thacker, 2001:156). By

extrapolation we mean the use of facts to build a guess about the future. There are two salient

points in Thacker’s definition. First, extrapolation and speculation are identified as two styles

for producing science fiction (which includes the extrapolation of current technological

opportunities, as well as the imaginative and speculative construction of new technologies and

a world in which these may be applied. Second, science fiction defines the nexus or interface or

connection between science and society.

Other Evaluations of Science Fiction

1. Science Fiction for Science Communication

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Science fiction has been proved to be a popular means of science communication. This is

particularly true because of its enormous potential in educating, motivating and entertaining

the common man, especially children. This evaluation of science fiction is best captured by

Negrete and Lartigue in the following extensive exposition:

Science and technology are represented in many other forms of

communication such as radio, television, news, magazines, music,

cinema and a range of fictional literature, including drama. Bearing in

mind that whatever pupils find pleasing, entertaining, or stimulating

helps them learn more effectively, we have to include all of science’s

cultural media, in particular science fiction, science fantasy, drama and

other forms of narrative that value science as a theme. These are

all…important resources for science communication and education.

Narrative, as a form of art and entertainment, can foster pupils’

interest in science… Many authors recommend using stories for science

education. …students can also gain an acquaintance of science through

narrative instead of putting the emphasis on learning precise definitions

of scientific topics…

Stories can have a strong effect on children’s interests. In fact, many

scientists acknowledge the influence of narrative in their choice of

career. Works by Dawkins, Gould, Crick, Watson and works of science

fiction ‘have fired the young imagination and left a challenging personal

impression on the reader’…

The value of using narratives in science education is related to the

way in which the brain deals with this kind of information. …a story is

formed by its pattern and images. The brain uses the pattern of one set

of images to organize another set. It also uses one image…as an

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arrangement for meanings that would otherwise be imageless.

Consequently, stories not only light up all the relevant elements in our

own experience, but they also improve our understanding.

Although…there are important differences between science

education and science communication, the problem of representing and

recreating science in an understandable, memorable and enjoyable way

is a common concern for both disciplines. Science communication

should take note of the experience gained in the use of narratives in the

classroom, and should start to consider these means of communication

as an important resources to communicate science, not only to children,

but also to the general public.

A variety of authors have in the past made successful incursions into

science communication via narratives, generating an important impact

on the general public perception of science. Examples are H.G. Wells,

Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Primo Levi, George Gamow, Lewis

Carroll, and Anatoly Dnieprov.

…Recent research… explored the role of narratives as a means of

communicating scientific ideas to the general public. The objectives

were to measure the success of a fictional literary work in

communicating scientific ideas – how much science can be understood

and remembered when it is included in a short story compared with

science conveyed through traditional factual text and what are the

motivational dimensions of literary stories as tools for communicating

science?

…Scientific information, it seems, is better remembered immediately

after reading a list of facts than it is after reading a story. However, as

time goes by, there is no statistical difference in the amount of scientific

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information retained comparing the two formats. Consequently, it is

possible to conclude that both text forms are equally effective in

conveying scientific knowledge with the only distinction, made by the

participants, that narratives is a more attractive and enjoyable way of

learning such information.

Narratives are an alternative and an important means for science

education and communication. They may provide an accurate way of

representing and communicating knowledge, an effective emotional

trigger, a lasting memory structure, an enjoyable medium and a

powerful aid for learning. To present scientific information through

stories, novels, comics and plays should be regarded as an important

means to transmit information in the repertoire of both science

teachers and communicators (Negrete and Lartigue, 2004: 121-124).

2. A Literature of Ideas

Science fiction is a literature of ideas. Here the writer has the privilege to create his own worlds,

with peculiar political systems and cultures. It also allows the writer to take present trends to

their logical conclusions. The science fiction writer must construct a plausible background in

terms of the world he wants to describe: the people and their technology, their customs, their

myths, their politics, their economy, etc. In the world the writer describes, people’s beliefs and

the way they behave must be consistent with the political and social institutions that these

beliefs support. The technology described must be consistent with the fundamental laws of

science and with an economic system that supports it, etc. Science fiction literature therefore is

a bank of ideas. It provides a laboratory where we may conceptually test new ideas on science

in interaction with society.

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3. Science Fiction and Foresight

Richard Slaughter (1995: xvii) defines foresight as “the deliberate process of expanding

awareness and understanding through futures scanning and the clarification of emerging

situations.” Our foresight capability helps us to

a) assess possible consequences of our actions and decisions

b) anticipate problems before they occur

c) consider the present implications of possible future events

d) envision desired aspects of future societies.

Our foresight capability therefore helps us realize the type of future we desire. Science fiction

literature extends our foresight capabilities through its expansion of our time horizon, and with

this our sense of responsibility. In science fiction, the most evocative stories reveal that the

great changes in history are influenced by chance and hazard rather than pre-ordained. Science

fiction sharpens our social imaging/envisioning abilities. Science fiction provides a powerful

channel that transmits Futures Studies2 to a mass audience. When science fiction taps into

Futures Studies research it has the effect of deepening our collective cultural heritage whereby

the common denominator of cultures of diverse ethnicities and nationalities becomes science.

4. Science Fiction as a Social Movement

Science fiction is also evaluated as a social movement. Science fiction in this perspective is a

process of societal and cultural production resulting from the perpetual demystification of

nature through the agency of science and the consequent generation of a secular world-view

that legitimized, created and sustained the emerging technological society. Science fiction in

2 Futures Studies, Foresight, or Futurology is the science, art and practice of postulating possible, probable, and

preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Futures Studies (colloquially called “Futures”

by many of the field’s practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and

what is novel. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present,

and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends. Source: Wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology

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this configuration represents the exploration of the impact of science upon the individual and

society and the promotion of the view of the progressive character of that impact. Around the

world since the 1920s advocates of this progressive character of the impact of science have

formed themselves into magazines, fan organizations, local, national and international

conventions, generating an important impact on the cultures of these advocates. Africa

unfortunately has largely been absent in this social-cum-cultural formulation.

Why We Need African Science Fiction

“Once a mind has been stretched by an idea it never returns to its original

shape” – Chinese saying.

African Science Fiction are stories of science wherein the protagonists are Africans. The more a

society learns about science the more that society appreciates science (or you may say, the

more science becomes for that society a way of life). The more a society appreciates science

the more that society can grow science, and the easier it is for the government of that society

to harness manpower for the expansion of the frontiers of science such that that society more

and more tends towards the scientific state.3

The society learns about science through science fiction. Now, when that society reads

science fiction wherein its citizens are the protagonists the effect is unprecedented. If we are

members of that society it tells us that we (and not other people) are indeed the creators of the

knowledge about the science being communicated to us. The positive impact this has upon our

minds both as individuals and as a people is incalculable. We read science fiction concerning us.

We are at first incredulous and may laugh about it. But we are nevertheless entertained and

even somewhat excited. So we read another, then another, and yet another. We are more and

more excited and entertained and are beginning to wonder and marvel at the ideas we are

3 See “African Science Fiction Imagery” Vol. 1 of 4 published by The African Science Fiction Project for ideas and

definitions of the scientific state.

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confronted with. These ideas, these images, are different from what our conscious minds know

about us. But then we have unconsciously grown to love the thrill these ideas, these images,

produce in us. Eventually, and we are not aware when it happens, we begin to entertain the

thought that THESE THINGS ARE JUST POSSIBLE. We are not aware that a great battle has been

fought in our subconscious mind: the battle of pulling down old and decadent pillars of unbelief

and the building of new ones. We are beginning to believe. A small but great leap has been

made, that is to begin to believe. This small but great leap is so important because once a mind

has been stretched by an idea it never again can return to its original shape.

Science fiction about us emboldens our imagination. More importantly, they are images

we cast upon our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is willing to accept new

suggestions and then cause them to become a reality in our conscious life. The subconscious

mind informs the conscious mind that there is some new information to be acted upon and this

can be extremely useful to us in changing our experience and beliefs and even our behaviour.

Science fiction written about us has the character and power of a subliminal message or

subliminal propaganda. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines subliminal as

‘…existing or functioning outside the area of conscious awareness: influencing thought, feeling,

or behaviour in a manner unperceived by personal or subjective consciousness… designed to

influence the mind on levels other than that of conscious awareness…’ In explaining the Brain

Wave Technology, Mardon International describes subliminal messaging as

…the act of presenting subliminal messages to a person/persons below

the level of conscious awareness. The intention is to instill an

unconscious (or not consciously decided) response. The effects created

through the use of subliminal messaging are such that the recipient has

an impulse to ‘do something’ that they may not have ordinarily done.

With years of research however, it has also been demonstrated that not

only can a person be influenced to ‘do something’, but that ingrained

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behaviours or emotional responses can be changed too (Mardon

International)

The African Science Fiction Project as a means of Rebranding Nigeria

1. The African Science Fiction Project can be used to rebrand Nigeria because we have

recognized that the power of re-imagining Nigeria as a Scientific and Technological State

is equivalent to bringing a higher degree of energy to bear upon our nation and her

people, thereby heating the country up until its unfavourable bonds are loosened,

making the molten nation ready for a recast. Now the major role of the African Science

Fiction Project is to create the moulds or the possible moulds for a better national

shape.

2. The African Science Fiction Project can be used as a means of Rebranding Nigeria in the

sense that through a story that has a scientific and technological plot, African setting

and characters, and the themes of state of the art heroism only in Africa; we create

powerful software of TOTAL THOUGHTS which can be installed into the unscientific

hardware of African and Nigerian minds in order to initiate them on the Path of

Scientific Revolution.

3. The African Science Fiction Project is useful in the Rebranding Nigeria Campaign because

through the defined standards of African Science Fiction above, we create a NEW

CLIMATE OF THOUGHT which figuratively favours the seedlings of science and

technology in our land. We Africans have micro desires to build cars, jets, trains, rockets,

satellites, etc, but the ACT cannot grow in our own hands because of an unfavourable

thought climate. This can be solved through the African Science Fiction Project.

4. The African Science Fiction Project as a Rebranding Nigeria method is such that through

the Project we create the African Isotope or Radioactive Africa. Presently, Africa is not

influential in the fate of the world, much less Nigeria. The African Science Fiction Project

sets our local minds on the way of altering a dormant Nigeria, or altering the atomic

structure of Nigeria so as to make it powerful. The Radiations Nigeria emits become its

scientific and technological properties.

5. The African Science Fiction Project is a good means of re-branding Nigeria because it

creates a gear system of time where our African Consciousness can engage into

different speeds in order to travel the traffic of an earthly existence. Through the time

gears we can overtake the vehicles of other nations and continents or allow ourselves to

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be overtaken by them. The Space Race, sparked off by Russia’s first satellite to space,

between the defunct USSR and the USA was a manifestation of Science Fiction as a

system for time consciousness.

6. The African Science Fiction Project is a means of rebranding Nigeria because through

the African Science Fiction stories we can accurately and favourably predict our future

by stimulating the Creation of the Future that we are imaginatively and vividly

describing.

7. The African Science Fiction Project rebrands Nigeria since it initiates an African Story

where the African Future is told through a series of challenges, defeats, and triumphs.

Through this the Temperature of Africa increases and with it a more efficient

consciousness of our youths and more kinetic innovations. Otherwise Nigeria and Africa

will remain like cold planets and celestial bodies while the more scientific and

technologically oriented countries generate the greater heats and assume the positions

of hotter suns and stars like Siris, Denebola, Betelgeux, and Aldebaran in the Universe.

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References

Spitulnik, D., 1993. “Anthropology and Mass Media.” Annual Review of

Anthropology, 22:293-315.

Thacker, E., 2001. “The Science Fiction of Technoscience: The Politics of

Simulation and a Challenge for New Media Art.” Leonardo, 34(2):

pp.155-158.

Negrete, Aquiles and Lartigue, Cecilia, 2004. “Learning from education

to communicate science as a good story.” Endeavour, Vol. 28 No.3.

September 2004.

Richard A. Slaughter, 1995. The Foresight Principle: Cultural Recovery in

the 21st Century. Wesport, CT: Praeger Press, and London: Adamantine

Press Ltd.

Mardon International. “Lasting Change without the Pain”

<www.mardoninternational.com> Accessed 18 October 2008.

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Appendix A

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Appendix C

Some Endorsements

“Science fiction writing is an excellent way of producing a new breed of science-

conscious Nigerian citizens. This is because science fiction shapes our collective

imagination. A nation is the sum total of her collective imaginations. The power of

the collective imagination in shaping the destiny of a nation is best understood

and explained by psychologists. If the content of the imagination of our people

includes to a large extent

a) the belief in the goodness of science

b) confidence in our human capability to produce science

c) confidence in our ability to evolve culture and social systems that support

the flourishing of science,

then it is only a matter of time for our nation to emerge as a force to reckon with

in the global production and consumption of science.

This project because of it critical role in awakening the people’s

consciousness on science is a must read for every future-minded Nigerian.

I recommend it for great publicity.”

– Professor Emma Obasi (IMSU, Owerri) 01/June/2009

“When Thales in Greece predicted the first recorded eclipse that took place on

May 28, 585 BC, he was only considered a science fiction theorist. When again

Pythagoras spoke of the universe as composed of numbers, he was merely

taken notice of until the heights of pyramids were measured very easily by the

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use of his theory. I strongly believe that this science fiction writing project is

not only literature but one that will soon generate an avalanche of theories

that can imaginatively reconstruct both the psyche and orientation of Africa

and Africanity for positive attention. It is my imagination therefore that given

the needed support, guide and publicity, this project, which has a tendency for

continental transformation, will be beneficial to all concerned.”

– Professor Chima B. Iwuchukwu (IMSU, Owerri) 22/07/09

“I strongly endorse this project. African Science Fiction? Why not? I encourage

well-meaning Nigerians and other Africans to endorse and support this project.

I am particularly interested in the Nigerian component of this project – that is

Nigerian Science Fiction. The truth is that here in Nigeria we are in dire need of

this brand of fiction. I believe that if we can make our school children read

Nigerian Science Fiction, we are going to produce a whole generation of

Nigerians who are burning with a passion for science. Everybody should help

make African science fiction a reality.”

– Dr Mrs. Phil Oshieze Ehirim, RN.JP

(Founder/President, Alpha Charity Healthcare Services Inc.)

17/5/2009

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