We’re excited to announce that The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, Volume 3, will be released on November 26, 2024! Edited by Nigerian speculative fiction writer Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and guest-edited by Chinaza Eziaghighala, this collection is being published by Caezik Books of Arc Manor. The pre-order link is live.

Anthologies have played a central role in the development of African science fiction and fantasy, providing a space for new authors to experiment with the genre, find their voice, and build audiences. For a long time, African speculative fiction was not considered mainstream within African literature. However, anthologies have created alternative spaces for publishing outside of traditional platforms, which often did not provide adequate opportunities for sci-fi and fantasy writers. Series like AfroSF are iconic examples that have shaped the field. The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction continues this important work, bringing together established and emerging authors from the continent and the diaspora. SFF enthusiasts love the anthology because it introduces them to fresh voices and exciting new fiction.

As some of you might know, Volume 2 of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, published in August 2023, was a finalist for the Locus Award and was longlisted for the British Science Fiction and British Fantasy awards. [Read more about it here.]

Volume 3’s table of contents includes familiar names such as Wole Talabi, Tendai Huchu, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa, along with diaspora voices like Tananarive Due, P Djèlí Clark, and Nalo Hopkinson. There are also many new names. Additionally, several stories in the anthology are from the groundbreaking Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology (2023).

See the Table of Contents for the anthology below:

Nalo Hopkinson – “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of The World” (Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror)

Tananarive Due – “Suppertime” (New Suns 2)

P Djeli Clark – “How To Raise A Kraken In Your Bathtub” (Uncanny Magazine)

Tobias Buckell – “By Throat & Void” (The Sunday Morning Transport)

Tendai Huchu – “The Hollowed People” (Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology)

Wole Talabi – “Saturday’s Song” (Lightspeed Magazine)

Kemi Ashing-Giwa – “Thin Ice” (Clarkesworld)

Makena Onjerika – “The Forest of Talking Animals” (The Deadlands)

Cheryl Ntumy – “The Way of Baa’gh” (Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology)

Adelehin Ijasan – “The Rafting of Jorge Santa Cruz” (Interzone Digital)

Amanda Ilozumba – “The Haunting of Kambili” (Lolwe)

Michelle Iruobe – “Parody of the Sower” (Omenana Magazine)

Gabrielle Emem Harry – “A Name Is A Plea and A Prophecy” (Strange Horizons)

Chisom Umeh – “Ncheta” (Apex Magazine)

Dennis Mugaa – “Nairuko” (Fantasy Magazine)

Vuyokazi Ngemntu – “Blood & Ballots” (Ibua Journal)

Chukwu Nwaka – “The Rainbow Bank” (Giganotosaurus)

Moustapha Mbacké Diop – “Sirabiri of The Restless” (Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead)

Oyedotun Damilola – “A Journal of Strange Creatures and Beasts from Africa” (Dark Matter; Monsters Lairs, A Dark Fantasy Horror Anthology)

Xan van Rooyen – “Lost In The Echoes” (Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology)

Pre-order at Amazon here.