Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

Tag: Science fiction

  • Nnedi Okorafor makes Arthur C Clark Award 2016 Shortlist

    Nnedi Okorafor makes Arthur C Clark Award 2016 Shortlist

    Nnedi Okorafor is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clark Award 2016 for her novel The Book of Phoenix. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain for a book first published in the United Kingdom. The award, established with a generous grant given by Sir Arthur…

  • Shadreck Chikoti’s Imagine Africa 500 anthology out on April 30

    Shadreck Chikoti’s Imagine Africa 500 anthology out on April 30

    The Imagine Africa 500 anthology featuring some of the continent’s leading names in speculative fiction this month. It will make its online debut on April 30. In November last year, I spoke about a workshop hosted by the Story Club in Malawi was facilitated by Billy Kahora, Jackee Batanda and Beatrice Lamwaka. Those at the workshop were…