I have achieved the ultimate. I have been chibi-fied 🙌🏾 Praise be

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...

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.

Oh, he tried it... www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

Tokoloshe Hunters ships worldwide!

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...

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

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! 😭🤟🏾

Oooh love this list by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social ! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

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…

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...

$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.

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

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

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/

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 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...

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.

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.’”

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...

Feed: "Flame Tree Fiction New" By: Olivia Jackson on Friday, July 11, 2025

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...

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/

New from CTG! ✨️

New article from me on IJNET! @icfjorg.bsky.social African countries really need to up their dedication to open data and research. The gap left from the USAID cuts could be the opportunity/impetus to do so. ijnet.org/en/story/us-...

So the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 edited by I & Chinaza Eziaghighala is a British Fantasy award finalist for best anthology. Congrats to us and all the amazing folks that make up & contributed to making this amazing book, and thanks to all who supported it 🥰🤩🥳

The axolotl possesses a science fiction-like superpower: the ability to regenerate entire limbs. But how does an amputated limb know where to regenerate from? This mystery of “positional identity” has fascinated scientists for decades.

As I continue my search for a permanent position in #Communications, #Research, or #MediaStudies: Reach out if you're looking for someone to lead your communications effort, moderate a panel, interview artists, conduct research, manage your event, make you a podcast and/ or to chat about books!

New from CTG!

Meet Meet Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social , author of ZamaShort #2 'Summer'. Nerine Dorman is a South African author and editor of science fiction and fantasy currently living in Cape Town, with short fiction published in numerous anthologies. #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

New from CTG!

New from CTG!

An edition to read on a big screen because the photos of Algiers are achingly beautiful. Our first in a limited series of photo essays on African cities.

Celebrate African art, stories and storytellers this year for Africa month by grabbing your copy of Carry On African Folklore and Sci-Fi Anthology today!

Does anyone know how to block specific users (or posts) from a custom Bluesky feed created with @skyfeed.app?

5 days! #fricanSFF @storybundle.bsky.social , @meerkatpress.bsky.social , @rdspress.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @nalohop.bsky.social, @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social, @therisingtithes.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi

Thank fuck

Happy Mother’s Day! 💓

"Kenya’s current president, William Ruto's... rise to power was largely fuelled by his appeal to Kenya’s evangelical Christian churches, a bloc that holds significant influence over the country’s social and political landscape." ~ Maureen Kasuku. rpublc.com/kenya/right-...

The last two decades of Africa potential discourse have already taught us that entrepreneurship cannot per se overcome poor public policy. It is especially fallacious to expect young people to magically leapfrog these entrenched complexities developmentekko.substack.com/p/africas-yo...

It's finally been published! Check out my new article on how data journalists are contributing to the documentation of femicides in Kenya. ijnet.org/en/story/how...

Very useful maps/details here. The rise of what some call 'digital slavery' will be a key project for our forecasting team in our new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Without better regulation (and more awareness!) the harm many workers suffer will only expand in scale & severity.

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

Anyway, so that I don't have to keep reskeeting them 🤣, if you're not following @africansffhype.bsky.social, go do yourself a favour and get on it for finding all the latest African and African diaspora SFF. They're a treasure trove.

"...the flow of data and knowledge out of 39 African nations to subcontractors, mostly located in the United Arab Emirates, North America, and Europe, with four outsourcing firms in Africa. From there, it goes on to clients such as Meta, OpenAI, and Samsung." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

Oh! I have a new story out in the latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. "Descent" is a standalone science-fantasy novella set in the amazing @sauutiverse.bsky.social about an exploration mission on a planet of storms, epistemology, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge. Check it!

Take a deep dive into a new Sauúti story out there: @wtalabi.bsky.social’s “Decent” out in Clarkesworld mag 📖👀

A titillating ensemble of short story collections and anthologies by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora. From time travel, space opera, AI, zombies, African spirituality, it's all here! storybundle.com/scifi