African SFF you should be reading right now

Looking for some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of Africa right now? Here's a list of recommendations from Wole Talabi, Lauren Beukes and T.L. Huchu, from their 2024 Glasgow Worldcon panel "Through an African Lens".

Here's the list on Goodreads.

UK readers, here's the list in Bookshop.org.

The list

• Rosewater - Tade Thompson
• Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor
• Mermaid Fillet - Mia Arderne
• Dazzling - Chikodili Emelumadu
• The First Murder On Mars - Sam Wilson
• The Theory of Flight - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
• Triangulum - Masande Ntshanga
• The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan
• Ghostroots - 'Pemi Aguda
• Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
• The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala (ed)
• Zoo City - Lauren Beukes
• The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu
• Drinking from Graveyard Wells - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
• Digging Stars - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
• Glory - Noviolet Bulawayo
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi
• Intruders - Mohale Mashigo
• AfroSF - Ivor Hartmann (ed)
• It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Alistair Mackay
• Azotus the Kingdom - Shadreck Chikoti
• Dazzling - Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

Online, they also suggest The African Books Collective, the Sauutiverse, and AfricanSFS.

Notice anything missing? Let me know in the comments!