"This linguistic progress has not been limited to literature. The 2017 BRICS (an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa Film Festival held in Chengdu, China saw the debut of Jahmil XT Qubeka’s 20 minute short film, Stillborn, which follows the android Nobomi SX1 as she tries to uncover the cultural past of the now extinct humans that created her. With dialogue entirely in isiXhosa, the film is the first South African science fiction film not in English."
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Alan Muller, Decolonising Speculative Fiction in South Africa; Decolonising Speculative Fiction. Eds. Isabelle Hesse and Edward Powell, 2018, p. 31.
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