Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift has been shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Arthur C. Clarke Award, which is in its 34th year, awards “the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.” The 2020 shortlist announcement was made by the British Science Fiction Foundation, the […]
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Nnedi Okorafor, Akwaeke Emezi, Tochi Onyebuchi, Tade Thompson Are 2020 Locus Awards Finalists
The 2020 Locus Awards shortlists have been announced, and four African writers have books nominated in various categories. Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet and Tochi Onyebuchi’s War Girls are nominated in the Young Adult Novel category. Tade Thompson’s The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption is nominated in Science Fiction Novel. Nnedi Okorafor for Binti: Sacred Fire in the Novelette […]
Tade Thompson’s Suspenseful Noir Story “Making Wolf” Gets A New Edition
Tade Thompson is the award-winning sci-fi author who brought us the Wormwood Trilogy. On May 7th, a new edition of his 2015 novel Making Wolf was released by Little Brown and Company. Making Wolf tells the story of Weston Kogi, hapless man who returns home, an unnamed West African country, from London only to be […]
Tade Thompson Wins Arthur C Clarke Award, for Rosewater, the First Novel in His Wormwood Trilogy
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, […]
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 […]
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