Dust in Motion: Agential Realism, Decolonial Ecologies, and Multispecies Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor’s “The Winds of Harmattan”

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Analysis reveals wind as a binding agent of climate and justice in African narratives, suggesting new ethical frameworks.

Wind in the narrative operates as an infrastructure shaping plot and risk, and its absence signals ethical injury.
Ecological memory connects temporality to ethics, linking seasonal timing to communal responsibilities for justice.
Rumor and trial-by-ordeal overwrite wind-based relational care with patriarchal control in social dynamics.
The study emphasizes the co-production of atmospheric processes and social life within African speculative literature.

Mukim et al. (2025) studied this question.

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