The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship 2026
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
Award-winning New York Times-bestselling writer of science fiction and fantasy for children and adults
Africanjujuism: Notes from the Termite Mound
Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blending of existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative. Africanjujuism: Notes from the Termite Mound will ground Africanjujuism in lived experience and highlight it as a storytelling practice. Through personal history, masquerades, and narrative craft, the series will show how Africanjujuism dances with African cosmologies as living systems while simultaneously playing with metaphor and fantasy. It will examine how naming, culture, history, memory, secrecy, and imagination converge to expand reality, resist erasure, and build and restore stories
Lectures
Tuesday, March 31 at 5:00 p.m. – Naming the Unseen
Monday, April 13 at 5:00 p.m. – Ndi Mmuo (The Spirits)
Friday, April 17 at 5:00 p.m. – Worlds of Spirit and Transformation
Location for all: Kline 14, 14th floor, Kline Tower, 219 Prospect Street, New Haven
All lectures are free and open to the public, with receptions to follow.