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".
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!