ABSTRACT: Contemporary African speculative fictions, by constructing alternative fantastical worlds, along with different knowledge production systems, frequently resist and counter the epistemic violence instituted by the denial and silencing of the voices of colonial subjects. By coexisting with and negotiating within the contemporary neocolonial social order, these alternative fantastical structures, often modeled after a "precolonial" African past or a hypothetical "decolonized" African culture and myth, create an epistemological framework that draws elements from both. This hybrid knowledge production system presents animistic, supernatural African belief structures against rationalist Euro-American epistemic constructs while retaining certain components from the epistemes established by the West. This paper focuses on the epistemic dilemma induced by this coexistence and clash between indigenous and Western systems of knowledge and beliefs in postcolonial Africa through a textual analysis of Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch (2011) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu (2014).
Chatterjee et al. (Mon,) studied this question.