Sankofa Gate, The

di PRINCE PENMAN (Autore)

PRINCE PENMAN, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. What if the silence isn't peace—but starvation you've forgotten how to name? Kweku Asare maps dead space. Alone in a skiff on the gray edges of the Diasporan Drift, they log derelict stations and avoid questions. The technocracy's Memory Edict has erased ancestral languages, outlawed old songs, and taught an entire civilization that forgetting is freedom. Kweku has learned to hide their hands, flatten their voice, and bury their queerness where no compliance officer can find it. Then a forbidden signal cuts through the static—a single word repeated in a tongue no one is supposed to speak: Sankofa. Go back and fetch it. Driven by a hunger they can't explain, Kweku plunges into a hidden world of Rememberers, Bone-Singers who carry libraries in their skeletons, and a shattered Gate that once connected every living being to their ancestors. Pursued by Commander Sekyere—a former Rememberer who chose the silence over the weight of memory—Kweku must retrieve three Keys across the threshold of death itself. Because the Gate isn't just a myth. It's a technology. A frequency. A door that was broken by those who feared what it demanded. To open it, Kweku must offer the memory they've spent seventeen years hiding. They must speak the truth they've never spoken aloud. And they must inhabit their own body without shame—every desire, every scar, every thread of a lineage that was never truly lost. The Sankofa Gate is an Afrofuturist odyssey where ancestral memory is physics, queerness is an ancient inheritance, and the only way forward is to reach back and fetch what the silence tried to erase. Perfect for readers of Nnedi Okorafor, Rivers Solomon, and Tade Thompson who crave speculative fiction rooted in African diasporic wisdom—unapologetically queer, cosmically ambitious, and fiercely tender.

• Autore: PRINCE PENMAN
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 06:57:46
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: PRINCE PENMAN
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466683825