In this essay, we examine the figure of Oyin Da in Tade Thompson’s The Wormwood Trilogy to demonstrate how Africanfuturism uses colonial infrastructure—or “the master’s house”—in queer ways to resist neocolonialism and produce decolonial contexts of queer and feminist African life. Drawing on Audre Lorde’s often-cited quote, we assert that Oyin Da provides an exemplar of postcolonial realities wherein, sometimes, the master’s house should not be dismantled at all. Instead, Thompson’s trilogy illustrates how Africans can repurpose colonial infrastructure in queer and feminist ways for decolonial ends.
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