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Features June 6, 2016

Family Meeting | by Mazi Nwonwu | African Sci-fi

4: 35 pm, June 1 2089, Abuja, Capital city of the Union of West African States “And that was how I discovered I have a fifteen year old son,” I said, forcing my eyes to rest on the ‘M’ shaped wrinkle line on the forehead of the grey mustached man reclining on the alligator […]

Hitmaid | by Nicholas Rawhani | An African Story

After Robot. The Houghton streets are a peculiar place in the morning. Taxi-loads of pastel dressed women walk into houses like 1950’s American men would leave them, all at 8am. A woman calling herself Grace just got out of the taxi and headed to number 43. Of course Grace’s name wasn’t Grace. But Grace was […]

Stellar Travels and Alien Warfare | Read the Excerpt of Nnedi Okarofor’s New Novel Binti

Nnedi Okorafor is, by all account, Africa’s most hardworking novelist. The Book of Phoenix hit the stands a few months ago. Right before that, a slightly extended version of Lagoon was published in the US. And here we are eagerly awaiting the release of yet another novel titled Binti and published by Tor.com. The first thing that strikes you […]