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FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’.🩸
Have you picked up your copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6
Have you picked up your copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’.🩸
Have you picked up your copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6
Have you picked up your copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6
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Cursed Daughters x Oyinkan Braithwaite hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/c...
Cursed Daughters x Oyinkan Braithwaite
379 pp. September 25, 2025 (UK), November 4, 2025 (US), Atlantic Books. Fiction. What a compelling read! This novel made me more unsociable than usual for 24 hours. A woman sees a man when he comes…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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On My Blog: A New Novel Announcement, Shigidi Paperback Out Now In North America And A Visit To Stefen's Book Club.
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A New Novel Announcement, Shigidi Paperback Out Now In North America And Stefen’s Book Club
I have some thrilling news y’all! Announcing The Fist of Memory My next novel, The Fist of Memory, a sci-fi thriller unlike any other, was just just announced! It will be out in Fall 2026. Th…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
On My Blog: A New Novel Announcement, Shigidi Paperback Out Now In North America And A Visit To Stefen's Book Club.
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Alright y'all. This is finally happening.
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Alright y'all. This is finally happening.
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Wait. What! OMG! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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“Binti” is Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor’s first story set in space. Okorafor explores Africanfuturism, a subcategory of science fiction rooted in African culture, history, and mythology.
#WomenofAfrofuturism
#WomenofAfrofuturism
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Binti” is Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor’s first story set in space. Okorafor explores Africanfuturism, a subcategory of science fiction rooted in African culture, history, and mythology.
#WomenofAfrofuturism
#WomenofAfrofuturism
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My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
Pan-African Futurism by Reginold Royston - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
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South African folklore: www.getaway.co.za/travel/trave... #folklore #folkloring #southafrica #capetown #myth
The folklore behind South Africa's most enigmatic places
South Africa’s landscapes are not just breathtaking, they’re storied.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
South African folklore: www.getaway.co.za/travel/trave... #folklore #folkloring #southafrica #capetown #myth
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When we read Children of Blood and Bone we were surprised (not really) by the fact that we’re exposed to so little African folklore in America, even though it’s our ancestry and culture. #blackbooksy #booksky nerdyromanticspodcast.com/children-of-...
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
When we read Children of Blood and Bone we were surprised (not really) by the fact that we’re exposed to so little African folklore in America, even though it’s our ancestry and culture. #blackbooksy #booksky nerdyromanticspodcast.com/children-of-...
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Hi everyone!
Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category.
If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾
www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...
Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category.
If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾
www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hi everyone!
Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category.
If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾
www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...
Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category.
If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾
www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...
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ICYMI: Our October newsletter is out! Catch up on highlights from Worldcon 2025, this year’s Nommo Awards shortlist (featuring one of our own!), the Baltimore Book Festival, a Strange Horizons review, and much more.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Our Worldcon 2025 Recap
Worldcon Highlights, Nommo Awards Shortlist, Baltimore Book Fest, Strange Horizons Review & A Call For Submissions
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
ICYMI: Our October newsletter is out! Catch up on highlights from Worldcon 2025, this year’s Nommo Awards shortlist (featuring one of our own!), the Baltimore Book Festival, a Strange Horizons review, and much more.
Read it here:
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#CovenantTLC: African folklore pedagogy combined with a life grounded in the sacraments may provide a path to #truth and virtue in #education.
Education & Truth in an Age of Relativism (Part 2) - The Living Church
African folklore pedagogy combined with a life grounded in the sacraments may provide an educational path to truth and virtue.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#CovenantTLC: African folklore pedagogy combined with a life grounded in the sacraments may provide a path to #truth and virtue in #education.
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Book deal announcement 🙂🥳.
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Book deal announcement 🙂🥳.
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
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To find my very 1st African Horror book, The Reluctant Dead randomly reviewed by @northcoastjournal.com after all these years is one of the most-gratifying gifts ever in my literary journey. Big thanks to Collin Yeo for bringing this book to a new audience. www.northcoastjournal.com/arts-scene/b...
Fresh Blood - North Coast Journal
Four horror reads off the beaten path Horror crosses human boundaries in a way other works of fiction struggle with. Humor, for instance, is notoriously difficult to translate, as the comedic power of...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
To find my very 1st African Horror book, The Reluctant Dead randomly reviewed by @northcoastjournal.com after all these years is one of the most-gratifying gifts ever in my literary journey. Big thanks to Collin Yeo for bringing this book to a new audience. www.northcoastjournal.com/arts-scene/b...
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🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃
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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃
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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf
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And the winner is… ROGBA PAYNE for The Dance of Shadows.
Rogba’s award was accepted on his behalf.
Rogba’s award was accepted on his behalf.
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And the winner is… ROGBA PAYNE for The Dance of Shadows.
Rogba’s award was accepted on his behalf.
Rogba’s award was accepted on his behalf.
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**Beta Readers Wanted!**
I’m searching for beta readers to take an early look at my upcoming dark fantasy.
Lota and the Secret Order of Juju Mythics.
I’m searching for beta readers to take an early look at my upcoming dark fantasy.
Lota and the Secret Order of Juju Mythics.
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
**Beta Readers Wanted!**
I’m searching for beta readers to take an early look at my upcoming dark fantasy.
Lota and the Secret Order of Juju Mythics.
I’m searching for beta readers to take an early look at my upcoming dark fantasy.
Lota and the Secret Order of Juju Mythics.
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A small telepathic alien with a large head and eyes crash-lands in rural Africa, appearing, vanishing, then reappearing in the long grass of the bush in front of two boys. #ufosky
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A small telepathic alien with a large head and eyes crash-lands in rural Africa, appearing, vanishing, then reappearing in the long grass of the bush in front of two boys. #ufosky
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In “Nonchalant,” Cheryl S. Ntumy builds a dystopian world through the intimate lens of a medicated woman and her detached partner, exposing what happens when society won’t let people be themselves.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In “Nonchalant,” Cheryl S. Ntumy builds a dystopian world through the intimate lens of a medicated woman and her detached partner, exposing what happens when society won’t let people be themselves.
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It's my absolute pleasure of be moderating for the launch of the frightfully devourable Futility, the latest novel from @nuzo.bsky.social Queen of African Horror, and @titanbooks.bsky.social. Reserve your place before all the tickets go! #books #horror www.eventbrite.com/e/futility-b...
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's my absolute pleasure of be moderating for the launch of the frightfully devourable Futility, the latest novel from @nuzo.bsky.social Queen of African Horror, and @titanbooks.bsky.social. Reserve your place before all the tickets go! #books #horror www.eventbrite.com/e/futility-b...
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Great Science fiction novels/comics by black authors?
https://www.booksns.com/171451/
I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi Subgenres has taken my interest for what’s out there that I …
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I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi Subgenres has taken my interest for what’s out there that I …
Great Science fiction novels/comics by black authors? - Trending Books
I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi
www.booksns.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Great Science fiction novels/comics by black authors?
https://www.booksns.com/171451/
I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi Subgenres has taken my interest for what’s out there that I …
https://www.booksns.com/171451/
I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi Subgenres has taken my interest for what’s out there that I …
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It looks epic. I'm on a real Afrofuturism/Africanfuturism kick too at the moment (which I think this looks like it is).
However... we suck at selling comics and graphic novels. I wish we didn't, but we've also had 3 copies of Anticucho for over a year now. beyondcataclysm.co.uk/product/anticucho/
However... we suck at selling comics and graphic novels. I wish we didn't, but we've also had 3 copies of Anticucho for over a year now. beyondcataclysm.co.uk/product/anticucho/
Anticucho - Beyond Cataclysm
Discover a world where robotics and biotechnology are accessible to many and where corrupt governments and criminal organisations constantly struggle over power.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It looks epic. I'm on a real Afrofuturism/Africanfuturism kick too at the moment (which I think this looks like it is).
However... we suck at selling comics and graphic novels. I wish we didn't, but we've also had 3 copies of Anticucho for over a year now. beyondcataclysm.co.uk/product/anticucho/
However... we suck at selling comics and graphic novels. I wish we didn't, but we've also had 3 copies of Anticucho for over a year now. beyondcataclysm.co.uk/product/anticucho/
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This the book I've been working on for a while now. It features gorgeous art from Bimpe Alliu, editing & lettering from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and logo design from Salt & Sister Studios.
But how do you want it? Do you read digital comics? What platforms? Do you want a physical copy?
But how do you want it? Do you read digital comics? What platforms? Do you want a physical copy?
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This the book I've been working on for a while now. It features gorgeous art from Bimpe Alliu, editing & lettering from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and logo design from Salt & Sister Studios.
But how do you want it? Do you read digital comics? What platforms? Do you want a physical copy?
But how do you want it? Do you read digital comics? What platforms? Do you want a physical copy?
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ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.
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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.
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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙