recounts the story of the arrival of aliens in Nigeria. The aliens make their landing in the lagoon close to the city of Lagos. The novel focuses on Ayodele, the alien ambassador, and her interactions with three humans: a marine biologist called Adaora; Anthony, a musician from Ghana; and a military man called Agu. Ayodele has shapeshifting capabilities that allow her to change her form. She transforms fluidly between human, animal and inanimate forms.
Ayodele is portrayed as queer. By queer I mean that her identity defies established gender-identity categories. In the novel, she is referred to as “a woman … man … whatever” and as a “woman, thing, whatever she was”. This fluid identity blurs the boundaries of what has been normalised as “correct”.explains that Ayodele’s fluid identity makes her dangerous.
The group is encouraged by how Ayodele challenges Father Oke, who is known to speak out against queer individuals and for equating queer relations with bestiality. The Black Nexus group see in Ayodele a possible ally and radical force that could change how they are viewed in Nigeria — a country in which same-sex relations are‘What if?’capabilities represent a need to rethink identities so that they are liberated from the limiting ways in which humans consider them.
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