Thanks to @dailymaverick.co.za for including our first anthology, “Mothersound” in this list 💫🚀👀🪐
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Six best African sci-fi and fantasy books to read this holiday
From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions and epic folklore, African writers are offering fresh new horizons for the world’s science fiction landscape.
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January 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Hi new followers!
My name is Fatima. I'm muslim & Nigerian, & I write both literary & speculative fiction. Poetry too when inspiration strikes 😅
Here's a link to my last published piece, a story about love & friendship & heartbreak.
Side bonus: a rather friendly Jinn!
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My name is Fatima. I'm muslim & Nigerian, & I write both literary & speculative fiction. Poetry too when inspiration strikes 😅
Here's a link to my last published piece, a story about love & friendship & heartbreak.
Side bonus: a rather friendly Jinn!
lolwe.org/the-weight-o...
The Weight of Our Walls - Fatima Abdullahi | Lolwe
A short story by Fatima Abdullahi
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November 13, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Jacqueline takes us on a fascinating tour through non-Western traditions, demonstrating the impact that shifting and expanding perspectives can have.
"We all have blind spots: every human, every human culture. What if we aligned ourselves to each other in such a way as to minimise those?"
"We all have blind spots: every human, every human culture. What if we aligned ourselves to each other in such a way as to minimise those?"
Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures
The key is to evade the rigid and hegemonic structures of Western-oriented writing.
strangehorizons.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If you haven't come across it Mombera Rising is a Cli-Fi three story anthology written by Muthi Nhlema and Ekari Mbvundula Chirombo with the participation of the Nature Futures Framework, and its free. Get it and read and hear more about it here: futureecosystemsafrica.org/mombera-risi...
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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It's Sword and Soul Month at MVmedia! If you're a Sword and Sorcery fan, you'll love our stories based on precolonial African history. Sword and Soul Forever!
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April 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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December 8, 2024 at 3:54 PM
A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry when the mission is thrown into chaos.
"Liberation" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jenis Littles
Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
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"Liberation" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jenis Littles
Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
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Liberation - Reactor
A young woman is recruited to be part of Nigeria's first ever space mission, but things go awry when the mission is thrown into chaos.
reactormag.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Longlisted, shortlisted, and award-winning #africansff 🏆🏅🎖🥉🥈🥇
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Longlisted, shortlisted, and award-winning #africansff 🏆🏅🎖🥉🥈🥇
#AfricanSFF recommendation threads 🪐📚💙🪘🧜🏾♀️🌊🚀🌌🛸
Weekly #africansff reads 🪐📚💙
March 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#AfricanSFF recommendation threads 🪐📚💙🪘🧜🏾♀️🌊🚀🌌🛸
Massive congrats winners of the 2025 Nommo Awards!
Best Novel: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social
Best Novella: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
@suyidavies.com
Best Short Story: From Across Time by Chisom Umeh
@izom-chisom.bsky.social
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙 #booksky
Best Novel: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social
Best Novella: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
@suyidavies.com
Best Short Story: From Across Time by Chisom Umeh
@izom-chisom.bsky.social
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙 #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Massive congrats winners of the 2025 Nommo Awards!
Best Novel: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social
Best Novella: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
@suyidavies.com
Best Short Story: From Across Time by Chisom Umeh
@izom-chisom.bsky.social
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙 #booksky
Best Novel: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social
Best Novella: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
@suyidavies.com
Best Short Story: From Across Time by Chisom Umeh
@izom-chisom.bsky.social
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙 #booksky
Omenana Issue 30 - 10th anniversary edition, featuring:
@wtalabi.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @chineloonwualu.bsky.social, @mazinwonwu.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, Rafeeat Aliyu, Tariro Ndoro & Gabrielle Emem Harry is live now!
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@wtalabi.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @chineloonwualu.bsky.social, @mazinwonwu.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, Rafeeat Aliyu, Tariro Ndoro & Gabrielle Emem Harry is live now!
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Omenana 10th Anniversary Edition December 2024 - omenana.com
Issue 30 of Omenana Speculative fiction magazine features new and reprint works by speculative fiction writers from across Africa. All the contributors have been published in the magazine in the past.
omenana.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The ZamaShort Shop has updated! We now offer Subscriptions, one Full Bundle, and all our publications individually! Buy direct from us and stop funding oligarchs and start funding authors better.
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September 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The ZamaShort Shop has updated! We now offer Subscriptions, one Full Bundle, and all our publications individually! Buy direct from us and stop funding oligarchs and start funding authors better.
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#AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 💙📚
New Excerpt up! 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu, ZamaShort #14.
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Excerpts
ZamaShort Excerpts
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July 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
New Excerpt up! 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu, ZamaShort #14.
#fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚
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Awesomeness right here! Stories by @nalohop.bsky.social , @nuzo.bsky.social , @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and more! Just 21 days. $5 for 4 whole books, $20 for all. @storybundle.bsky.social, @meerkatpress.bsky.social, @rdspress.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social 💞
A titillating ensemble of short story collections and anthologies by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora. From time travel, space opera, AI, zombies, African spirituality, it's all here! storybundle.com/scifi
May 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Hussani Abdulrahim! ZamaShort #11 'Gold-Plated Boy'
#AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
#AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Hussani Abdulrahim
ZamaShort Author Hussani Abdulrahim
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March 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Hussani Abdulrahim! ZamaShort #11 'Gold-Plated Boy'
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#AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Bodies of Sand and Blood by @plangdineple.bsky.social is rich in possibility. A look at what it takes to create a truer self, against all odds.
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Cast of Wonders 580: Bodies of Sand and Blood | Cast of Wonders
Sneaking into your father’s shrine is one of the most stupid things you have ever done, yet you feel entirely at home among the hanging masks and horsetails. Lanterns beside the doorway and at the…
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December 3, 2024 at 10:35 AM
At the Fount of Creation by Tobi Ogundiran: Review by Archita Mittra locusmag.com/2024/12...
At the Fount of Creation by Tobi Ogundiran: Review by Archita Mittra
At the Fount of Creation, Tobi Ogundiran (Tordotcom 978-1-25090-803-2, $21.99, 224pp, hc) January 2025. At the Fount of Creation is a thrilling conclusion to Tobi Ogundiran’s Guardians of the God…
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December 21, 2024 at 6:48 AM
The sequel and epic conclusion to the Guardian of the Gods duology drops in January!
Preorder us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Preorder us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
December 6, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I'm attending #SeattleWorldcon2025 virtually and I'm a panelist on 2 sessions. Hope I bump into y'all (I'm in the discord as well)
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM