Jonathan Dotse founder of AfroCyberPunk writes in SciDev:
Science fiction helped accelerate Western development. It could do the same in Africa, says Jonathan Dotse.
The Industrial Revolution sparked the first wave of modern science fiction narratives, which used the power of creative storytelling to explore the implications of unfolding technological developments. Science and speculation drove those stories and narratives, allowing people to truly begin to envisage the radical possibilities that lay in the near and distant future...[more]