Science fiction, fantasy, horror and other forms of speculative fiction are breathing new life into African writing. International awards, TV deals, new publishing imprints, a growing fanbase and ...

Artists like Ethiopian-American Yared Nigussu and South African digital artist Loyiso Mkize are leading the charge. They're ...

Afrofuturism offers an alternative that emphasizes how entrenched mainstream science fiction genre has become. This African-inspired vision is gathering ground in film, literature and music, and is ...

Labels aside, Okorafor believes science fiction will play an invaluable role in Africa. "African science fiction is one arm of the many-armed creature that will solve problems on the continent ...

Science fiction has always been a way to envision ... Sign up Adeyemi, a Nigerian American writer, merges West African mythology with a textual undercurrent about the effects of the very real ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. A Turn to Reality: Nnedi Okorafor, an award-winning science fiction and fantasy ...

Dr. Omotoyosi Odukomaiya specializes in Black science fiction and women’s and gender studies, with a teaching focus at Hope College on American ethnic literature, African and African American science ...

From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions and epic folklore, African writers are offering fresh new horizons for the world’s science fiction landscape.

Marvel’s Black Panther movie, released in 2018, sparked renewed interest in the genre of science fiction (SF), particularly in Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism (AF) as SF subgenres that promote Black ...