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The science fiction genre in Africa supposedly started in Cameroon with the 1932 novel Nnanga Kon and Nigeria with the 1934 novel Gandoki. What was the literary scene like in the two countries at the time? Is there any reason why those two countries in particular would be where things started?

by /u/jbdyer in /r/AskHistorians

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