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Soila Kenya
@soila.bsky.social
🇰🇪 🇳🇬, africanist, womanist, 🏆 data journo at theawjp.org & pop-culturist @coldtakegeeks.bsky.social

MA 🎓 @charlesuni.cuni.cz @au.dk @dmjx.bsky.social

Re-imagining Africa @africansffhype.bsky.social
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Thanks to everyone who helped with this! I've figured the best way to populate the African SFF hype feed is to use the hashtag #africansff, so please do so while posting your work! Here's the link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Hey! If you're an African SFF author on here, I'm looking for you! I'd like to create a feed with all of you in one place so we know where to find you! Also, if you know any and see this, please tag them below! 🧡
Aww, I can't believe my height-mate (almost, I'm 2cm taller than her lol) is fine with the tracks. She's seemed immortal all these years...

worldathletics.org/women-in-ath...
The last dance for Fraser-Pryce | World Athletics
For once, the woman widely regarded as the greatest female sprinter the world has seen wanted to take it slow
worldathletics.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Maybe the last time I will comment about the genre/sff scene (and maybe it will not be the last time).

There is so much nastiness, so much bullying that sometimes you forget that you have the kind folk.

The brutality forces people into silence. But the kind folk are there. Just hidden.
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Tokoloshe Hunters ships worldwide!
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is a common conundrum for us marginalised folks now that the world is so globalised but I'm super lucky to have an easily pronounceable name 😀

africa.businessinsider.com/careers/i-ca...
I called myself 'James' on my résumé and finally got a job. Here's why I've started using my birth name again at work.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 28-year-old Mwangi Wanjau, who is from Kenya and based in Canada
africa.businessinsider.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours.

hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...
September 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I passed my Master's thesis defence yesterday! 🙌🏾

It's the hardest journey I've ever had to take academically so far because my mental health broke down severally due to unrelated issues, but I made it! 😭🤟🏾
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great Fantasy Novels With Unlikely Heroes
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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August 2025 reads

Here's almost every book I read in August (not true, but mostly true). Everything was pretty good! But here are links to reviews so far, more to come: Patchwork x Tom Comitta The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella x Eugen Bacon Weepers x Peter Mendelsund The Frequency…
August 2025 reads
Here's almost every book I read in August (not true, but mostly true). Everything was pretty good! But here are links to reviews so far, more to come: Patchwork x Tom Comitta The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella x Eugen Bacon Weepers x Peter Mendelsund The Frequency of Living Things x Nick Fuller Googins Last Night in San Francisco: Tech’s Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee x Scott Alan Lucas
hararereview.wordpress.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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THE KING MUST DIE comes out in just two months!

And if you have a B&N Rewards or B&N Premium Membership, you can save 25% on preorders during the next 3 days! (The Rewards membership is free. 😉)

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-king-m...
The King Must Die|Paperback
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Splinter in the Sky comes a pulse-pounding science fiction adventure following the daughter of rebel instigators and the heir of a power-drunk ruler who te...
www.barnesandnoble.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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$4600 over the next 17 days is not a big ask for the English-speaking literary world, and nothing I am seeing here at #Worldcon is changing that opinion. Please support. Please share. We can do this.

I truly believe that in fighting genAI, it is at least as important to support human language.
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project; Current Goal: $2500 by the end of August - to begin translation of: The Crocodile Doesn’t Hunt / Zvinobvinza by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa...
ko-fi.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm attending #SeattleWorldcon2025 virtually and I'm a panelist on 2 sessions. Hope I bump into y'all (I'm in the discord as well)
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Birth of a Dynasty is a novel inspired by African myths, geography, and culture, but with a wholly fresh spin to the genre with an incredible cast of characters that immediately feel fully realized, intense high-stakes, political intrigue, and a magic system that creates a dangerous and unforgiving
{2025 New Release} Birth of a Dynasty : A Novel by: Chinaza Bado
Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families’ fight for power in Ahkebulin, a land where magic is feared, giants are real, and prophecy holds sway. We shall not forgive. We shall not forget.
blackpageturners.wordpress.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It’s finally here!

African Folktales for the Young at Heart by Abubakar Yusuf Ibrahim is out now 🎉

A vibrant collection of Hausa stories—filled with tricksters, talking animals, and timeless wisdom.

Grab your copy: www.iskanchi.com/product/afri...

#AfricanFolktales #Iskanchi
July 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Will This Be A Problem? is open for non-fiction submissions (essays & reviews) until the 16th!

Send in your reviews & essays that highlight African spec fic in its many forms.

Submission guidelines: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/submissions/
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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In the @theconversation.com, he shows how stories by Okorafor, Onwualu, Tsamaase & others critique colonialism, climate injustice & exclusion.

These Africanfuturist tales imagine bold alternatives to today’s dominant climate narratives.

🔗 theconversation.com/african-sci-...
African sci-fi imagines new ways of living in climate-changed worlds
In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.
theconversation.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📘 African Climate Futures by Carl Death @uompols.bsky.social is out now with Oxford University Press

It explores how African climate fiction can challenge mainstream climate politics, blending postcolonial, feminist & queer theory.

🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Nnedi Okorafor's 'Death of the Author' is significant in imparting agency to its Black readers who want to explore africanfuturism, redefining Black scholarship through science fiction and proving that scientific development does not exclusively lie outside literature or within Western countries.
Book Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor's 'Death of the Author' is significant in imparting agency to its Black readers who want to explore africanfuturism, redefining Black scholarship through science fiction and proving tha...
rpublc.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The last review of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism week is from
@hararereview.bsky.social on Ytasha L. Womack’s The Afrofuturist Evolution.

She reprises a theme of the week: “Afrofuturism is not just an ‘artistic aesthetic’ but also ‘a practice and a method.’”
The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack
It’s Afrofuturism’s time in the sun (Black skin gleaming with Vaseline), and Ytasha L. Womack is its prophet.
www.strangehorizons.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Have you supported the latest #kickstarter project from @paganinistories.bsky.social yet? Gods Untold Africa is live now. Comics on African myth. Find it here:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pag...
GODS: UNTOLD - AFRICA
A continuation of our successful anthology GODS: Untold, but with a focus on African gods by African creators! It's time to be told!
www.kickstarter.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Feed: "Flame Tree Fiction New"
By: Olivia Jackson on Friday, July 11, 2025
Africanfuturism Short Stories | Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine Issue 2 is now out.

For your fix of African horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.

willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/will-this-be...
Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine Issue 2
Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine : Issue 2. This edition features speculative fiction from Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and the USA.
willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Quiz categories for the night:

African Fantasy
African Horror
African Sci-fi
International Fantasy
International Horror
International Sci-fi
QUICKFIRE ROUND: KENYAN SFF

(category questions will pick from short stories, books, TV and film)

RSVP here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/rsvp/
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New from CTG! ✨️
Are straight women who indulge in the boys' love genre sexualising gay men, or is there more than meets the eye? 👀

A Kenyan perspective on this evergreen debate by Clare K. Brilliant illustration by @trbclldstressed.bsky.social

#boyslove #danmei #yaoi #ThaiBL

coldtakegeeks.co.ke/bl-and-the-s...
BL and The Straight Woman: A Kenyan Perspective
Are straight women who indulge in men loving men (MLM) media sexualising gay men or is there more than meets the eye?
coldtakegeeks.co.ke
July 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM