The Nigerian writer and psychiatrist Tade Thompson has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award, the UK’s premier honour for science fiction, for his Nommo Award-winning novel Rosewater, the first in his Wormwood Trilogy set in 2066 Africa invaded by aliens. The announcement was made at the prize ceremony on Wednesday night at Foyles Bookshop, […]
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Tade Thompson Explains Why We Should Stop Talking About “The Rise” of African SFF
With the increased visibility of African speculative and fantasy fiction (African SFF, for short), and more and more writers working in the genre, and the unprecedented success of such names as Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor and Tomi Adeyemi, South Africa’s Lauren Beukes, and Liberia’s Wayetu Moore, conversations have risen around its description, presentation, celebration, and connection to […]
Nnedi Okorafor, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Wole Talabi, Sibongile Fisher Lead 2018 Nommo Awards Shortlists
The 2018 shortlists for the four Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans have just been announced. Among the shortlisted are Nnedi Okorafor, Sofia Somatar, last year’s Best Novel Award winner Tade Thompson, Caine Prize 2007 winner Henrietta Rose-Innes, sci-fi works compiler Wole Talabi, and Sibongile Fisher, whose chosen story, “A Door Ajar,” won the […]
My Favorite Books by African Writers in 2016 | by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed
Call me biased, but 2016 was another great year for African literature. Cassava Republic Press launched in the UK with an aim to “change the way the world thinks about African writing.” Works written in African languages were translated into English — including two books published by Phoneme Media, Roland Rugero’s Baho! (said to be […]
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