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Notes
1 In a forthcoming study of 66 African literature syllabi, Lily Saint and Bhakti Shringarpure report that 25 include Nervous Conditions; none include The Book of Not. Data cited with the permission of the authors.
2 Fuller identifies This Mournable Body incorrectly as the ‘sequel’ to Nervous Conditions (Citation1989).
3 See Krishnan (2009) for a smart reading of Adichie’s complex position in a twenty-first-century landscale of African literary celebrity.
4 See Slaughter (Citation2007).
5 See ‘Decolonial Temporalities in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not,’ forthcoming in Research in African Literatures.
6 I borrow the term ‘problem-space’ from David Scott, whose fullest articulation of its meaning appears in his Citation2004 Conscripts of Modernity.
7 See, for example, Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones (Citation2006), The Memory of Love (Citation2010), and Happiness (Citation2018); Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti (Citation2019); and Petinah Gappa’s Zimbabwe Trilogy.