It has to be story-wise. I was referring to the artwork
African Based Speculative Fiction
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Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.
There are also those who were left for dead in the Atlantic, only to be reawakened by an ancient power, and who seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.
Three lives within the towers are pulled to the fore of this Yekini, an earnest, mid-level rookie analyst; Tuoyo, an undersea mechanic mourning a tremendous loss; and Ngozi, an egotistical bureaucrat from the highest levels of governance. They will need to work together if there is to be any hope of a future that is worth living―for everyone.
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The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.
There are also those who were left for dead in the Atlantic, only to be reawakened by an ancient power, and who seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.
Three lives within the towers are pulled to the fore of this Yekini, an earnest, mid-level rookie analyst; Tuoyo, an undersea mechanic mourning a tremendous loss; and Ngozi, an egotistical bureaucrat from the highest levels of governance. They will need to work together if there is to be any hope of a future that is worth living―for everyone.
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Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.
There are also those who were left for dead in the Atlantic, only to be reawakened by an ancient power, and who seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.
Three lives within the towers are pulled to the fore of this Yekini, an earnest, mid-level rookie analyst; Tuoyo, an undersea mechanic mourning a tremendous loss; and Ngozi, an egotistical bureaucrat from the highest levels of governance. They will need to work together if there is to be any hope of a future that is worth living―for everyone.
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Reminds me of high rise by Ballard. Will keep this one on deck thanks breh
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A new IP from Peda Entertainment
Alusi: The Igbo Mythology
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Alusi: The Igbo Mythology
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Read an Excerpt From Nnedi Okorafor's She Who Knows - Reactor
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality…
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The Fisher King
Motherland Dreaming: Notes on African Speculative Fiction from Past to Present
43 Short Stories to Get You Caught Up on New African Sci-fi/Fantasy
Ready for Pre-order: Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Anthology Volume 3
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- Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu (2023)
- Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase (2024)
- Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, 2022 (Sheree Renée Thomas, Zelda Knight, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, editors)
- Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (2023)
- The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi (2023)
- Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (2022)
- The Daughters Of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai (2023)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (2023)
- Bridge by Lauren Beukes (2023)
- Dakini Atoll by Nikhil Singh (2024)
- More Perfect by Temi Oh (2023)
- Jackal, Jackal Tobi Ogundiran (2023)
- The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu (2023)
- Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name by Ukamaka Olisakwe (2023)
- The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing Giwa (2023)
- Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (2023)
- Like Thunder by Nnedi Okorafor (2023)
- Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Omenga (2023)
- Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila (2023)
- Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, 2023 (Wole Talabi, editor)
- Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda (2024)
- Caged Ocean Dub by Dare Segun Falowo (2023)
43 Short Stories to Get You Caught Up on New African Sci-fi/Fantasy
Ready for Pre-order: Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Anthology Volume 3
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Interesting. I hope to see more Speculative Fiction from African countries.
Thanks for the info.
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Lies of Ajungo, review posted because I couldn’t post just a pic but seems promising
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A Senegalese Sci-Fi Film
BABA, le Gardien de ObeluS
A Obelus, une planète reculée de l'univers, vit un peuple solitaire dans un environnement rocheux dégradé par un bouleversement climatique étrange. Au coucher du soleil, un gros nuage de fumée envahie le village et rend l'air irrespirable et toxique. Ce qui pousse les habitants de Obelus à s'enfermer dans leurs noyaux hermétiques avant chaque couchée de soleil. Pour eux, la beauté de la nuit n’est qu’une légende.
Baba, un petit enfant chasseur se lie d'amitié avec Buju, un vieux clochard scientifique, sur chaise roulante. Un bon jour, le vieux Buju, disparaît mystérieusement en laissant à Baba une montre, clé d’un repère scientifique qui renferme la solution pour libérer Obelus des mains du mystérieux clan du “Bison en feu”.
Baba se fixe alors comme mission, avec Mbeuw son fidèle chien, de combattre cette puissance et défendre son peuple.
English Translation:
In Obelus, a planet away from the universe, lives a lonely people in a rocky environment degraded by a strange climate change. As the sun sets, a large cloud of smoke engulfs the village and makes it look unbreathable and toxic. What drives the inhabitants of Obelus to lock themselves in their airtight cores before every sunset. For them, the beauty of the night is just a legend.
Baba, a little hunter kid befriends Buju, an old scientific tramp, in a wheelchair. One good day, old Buju, mysteriously disappears leaving Baba a watch, key to a scientific landmark that contains the solution to free Obelus from the hands of the mysterious clan of the "Bison on Fire".
Baba then sets himself up as a mission, with Mbeuw his faithful dog, to fight this power and defend his people.
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BABA, le Gardien de ObeluS
A Obelus, une planète reculée de l'univers, vit un peuple solitaire dans un environnement rocheux dégradé par un bouleversement climatique étrange. Au coucher du soleil, un gros nuage de fumée envahie le village et rend l'air irrespirable et toxique. Ce qui pousse les habitants de Obelus à s'enfermer dans leurs noyaux hermétiques avant chaque couchée de soleil. Pour eux, la beauté de la nuit n’est qu’une légende.
Baba, un petit enfant chasseur se lie d'amitié avec Buju, un vieux clochard scientifique, sur chaise roulante. Un bon jour, le vieux Buju, disparaît mystérieusement en laissant à Baba une montre, clé d’un repère scientifique qui renferme la solution pour libérer Obelus des mains du mystérieux clan du “Bison en feu”.
Baba se fixe alors comme mission, avec Mbeuw son fidèle chien, de combattre cette puissance et défendre son peuple.
English Translation:
In Obelus, a planet away from the universe, lives a lonely people in a rocky environment degraded by a strange climate change. As the sun sets, a large cloud of smoke engulfs the village and makes it look unbreathable and toxic. What drives the inhabitants of Obelus to lock themselves in their airtight cores before every sunset. For them, the beauty of the night is just a legend.
Baba, a little hunter kid befriends Buju, an old scientific tramp, in a wheelchair. One good day, old Buju, mysteriously disappears leaving Baba a watch, key to a scientific landmark that contains the solution to free Obelus from the hands of the mysterious clan of the "Bison on Fire".
Baba then sets himself up as a mission, with Mbeuw his faithful dog, to fight this power and defend his people.
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The Sauútiverse
World Summary/Overview
The Sauútiverse is the first in an exciting new Shared World series that is guaranteed to both entertain readers and introduce them to a new world of science fiction and fantasy by talented African writers. Featuring stories that are set in Sauúti – an Africa-inspired science-fantasy secondary world created by Africans, for the world, Sauúti is like Black Panther meets Wild Cards with all the rich spacefaring worldbuilding of Dune.
The Sauútiverse Shared World contains short stories and novellas set in this fictional civilization based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. The name Sauúti is taken from the word “Sauti” which means “voice” in Swahili. Sauúti, a five-planet system orbiting a binary star, is rooted deeply in a variety of African mythology, language, and culture.
Sauúti weaves in an intricate magic system based on the sounds of oral traditions and music, and includes science-fiction elements of artificial intelligence and space flight, including both humanoid and non-humanoid creatures.
Sauúti is filled with wonder, mystery, and magic.
Creators
Adelehin Ijasan
Eugen Bacon
Kalejaye Akintoba
Stephen Embleton
Xan van Rooyen
Cheryl Ntumy
Wole Talabi
Dare Segun Falowo
Ikechukwu Nwaogu
Jude Umeh
From the Sauutiverse
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
The Sauútiverse is the first anthology of stories set in a fictional shared world based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. Edited by Locus award nominated editor Wole Talabi with contributions from around the African continent and diaspora, Sauúti is filled with wonder, mystery, and magic.
Contributors include:
Nebula Award winner Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, World Fantasy Award nominee Eugen Bacon, NYT bestselling author Tobias S. Buckell, Caine Prize nominee T.L. Huchu, Adelehin Ijasan, Stephen Embleton, Akintoba Kalejaye, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Xan Van Rooyen, Dare Segun Falowo, Eye Kay Nwaogu, J. Umeh, Somto Ihezue.
Edited by Wole Talabi.
Forward by Fabrice Guerrier, Founder of Syllble Studios.
African-based intergalactic worldbuilding
Space travel
Humanoid and non-humanoid creatures
Artificial intelligence
Intricate magic system based on sound, oral traditions, and music
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