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# African SFF you should be reading right now
- URL: https://www.sambeckbessinger.com/african-sff-you-should-be-reading-right-now/
- Published: 2024-10-11T16:59:24.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-11T17:00:15.000Z
- Description: Some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of the continent.
- Author: Sam Beckbessinger

Looking for some of the best science fiction and fantasy coming out of Africa right now? Here's a list of recommendations from [Wole Talabi](https://wtalabi.wordpress.com/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com), [Lauren Beukes](https://laurenbeukes.com/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com) and [T.L. Huchu](https://www.instagram.com/tendaihuchu/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com), from their 2024 Glasgow Worldcon panel "Through an African Lens". 

[Here's the list on Goodreads.](https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/219175.African%5FSFF?ref=sambeckbessinger.com)

[UK readers, here's the list in Bookshop.org.](https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/african-sff/edit?ref=sambeckbessinger.com)

## The list

- Rosewater - Tade Thompson
- Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor
- Mermaid Fillet - Mia Arderne
- Dazzling - Chikodili Emelumadu
- The First Murder On Mars - Sam Wilson
- The Theory of Flight - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
- Triangulum - Masande Ntshanga
- The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan
- Ghostroots - 'Pemi Aguda
- Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
- The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala (ed)
- Zoo City - Lauren Beukes
- The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu
- Drinking from Graveyard Wells - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
- Digging Stars - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
- Glory - Noviolet Bulawayo
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi
- Intruders - Mohale Mashigo
- AfroSF - Ivor Hartmann (ed)
- It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Alistair Mackay
- Azotus the Kingdom - Shadreck Chikoti
- Dazzling - Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

Online, they also suggest [The African Books Collective](https://www.africanbookscollective.com/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com), the [Sauutiverse](https://sauutiverse.net/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com), and [AfricanSFS](https://www.africansfs.com/?ref=sambeckbessinger.com).

Notice anything missing? Let me know in the comments!