num_pages: 514
description: From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the countrys ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmothers ability to change her appearanceand perhaps the world.Created in the legacy of the seminal award-winning anthology series Dark Matter Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy diversity and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not risingits already here.Contents:The Blue House by Dilman DilaMarch Magic by WC DunlapIRL by Steven BarnesThe Deification of Igodo by Joshua Uchenna OmengaMami Wataworks by Russell NicholsRear Mirror by Nuzo OnohDoor Crashers by Franka ZephThe Soul Would Have No Rainbow by Yvette Lisa NdlovuA Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole TalabiSimbi by Sandra Jackson-OpokuHousewarming for a Lion Goddess by Aline-Mwezi NiyonsengaA Knight in Tunisia by Alex JenningsThe Devil Is Us by Mirette BahgatCloud Mine by Timi OduesoRuler of the Rear Guard by Maurice BroaddusPeeling Time (Deluxe Edition) by Tlotlo TsamaaseThe Sugar Mill by Tobias S. BuckellThe Carving of War by Somto Ihezue OnyedikachiGhost Ship by Tananarive DueLiquid Twilight by Ytasha WomackOnce Upon a Time in 1967 by Oyedotun Damilola MueesA Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner by Alexis Brooks de VitaThe Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library by Tobi OgundiranWhen the Mami Wata Met a Demon by Moustapha Mbacke DiopThe Papermakers by Akua Lezli HopeA Soul of Small Places by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa DialloAir to Shape Lungs by Shingai Njeri KagundaHanfo Driver by Ada NnadiExiles of Witchery by Ivana Akotowaa OforiThe Taloned Beast by Chinelo OnwualuStar Watchers by Danian Darrell JerryBiscuit &amp; Milk by Dare Segun Falowo
language: English
title: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
publisher: Tordotcom