Clap Back

Black Stars

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award-winning author.

Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.

Nalo Hopkinson’s Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

©2021 by Nalo Hopkinson. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

oh my Nokley

This was just wow. Powerful and intriguing; I was pulled into a world that is so similar and so different from my own in such a short span of time.

I may have to listen to this one twice

very well written and performed. But I don't understand how the two plots are connected. For that reason I may have to listen to this one a couple of times to understand what's really going on.

Excellent

Excellent and important.
Please put out more content like this.
This whole collection is excellent.

Enjoyed it

Enjoyed it. It was a cool concept and fascinating storyline. Would be a cool short series

Our Version

I thought the narrator did a fine job. And,the history was on point. Thank you!