Aretha Phiri: Your paper addresses classic noir and African noir, sub-genres of crime and detective fiction?

Sam Naidu: African crime fiction builds on and extends classic crime fiction to explore philosophical questions about identity, knowledge and power.

Sam Naidu: African crime fiction builds on and extends classic crime fiction's exploration of philosophical questions about identity, knowledge and power in the modern world.

Murkiness, so characteristic of classic noir sensibility, mutates, at times, in African crime texts such as Black Star Nairobi and Leye Adenle's When Trouble Sleeps, to a deliberate generic nebulousness.

Aretha Phiri: What do you see African crime fiction contributing to Black Atlantic scholarship?