In Conversation: African Climate Futures
In Conversation: African Climate Futures
with Dr Carl Death and Prof Jade Munslow Ong
Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of African Climate Futures. This special event celebrates the launch of African Climate Futures, the latest book by Dr Carl Death, which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change, weighing up climate policies in African countries and discussing the stories and films alongside them.
In conversation with Professor Jade Munslow Ong, Dr Death will explore how climate change is being understood, contested, and reimagined across the African continent and the power of stories to shape how we think about places, time, ecology and politics and the heroes and villains of climate change.
Whether you're interested in climate justice, African studies or the power of storytelling in shaping our environmental imagination, this event promises to be an inspiring and timely dialogue.
You can read the first chapter of African Climate Futures here until 28th Dec 2025 (courtesy of OUP).
Carl Death is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Carl’s research focuses on environmental politics in Africa, with a particular interest in critical and postcolonial approaches. His latest book, African Climate Futures (OUP, 2025) shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present.
Jade Munslow Ong is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Salford. She is author of Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, 2018), co-author with Matthew Whittle of Global Literature and the Environment (Routledge, 2025), and co-editor with Andrew van der Vlies of Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Jade is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, Decolonising Literary Studies In and Beyond the Classroom, and is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker who appears on programmes on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
? Date: 22nd January 2026
Location: House of Books and Friends
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
? Free and open to all – registration required
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