the expectation from fans that Eric not only forgive Adam but start a relationship with him – which has been getting so much traction on Twitter since this season's trailer was released – is troubling and raises broader questions about how we exhort (and, sometimes, bully) racial, sexual and gender minorities to embrace their abusers.

My mother loves her family’s name. Who wouldn’t, with all that pride and power emblazoned on it? It reels off her tongue like fire and warms her face with a smile every time she says it, a reminder that she is still her father’s daughter. During the sparse, brief disagreements she had with my father when he was alive, she would slap her chest and say in Igbo, ‘Me? Me, the daughter of Agbasiere?’. But she still had to abandon this name she is so proud of and take up a new name when she got married to him.

I only started actively thinking of how and to what extent queer characters are represented in futuristic African literature earlier this year, after reading TJ Benson’s We Won’t Fade Into Darkness – a collection of exquisitely written futuristic short stories.

People adopt different styles of packing when leaving a place. There are the light-packers who just throw in a change of clothes, grab their smartphones and are good to go. These ones are eager to leave, discard accumulated memories, and make new memories in a new place.