Dominion

By Zelda Knight, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Nicole Givens Kurtz , Dilman Dila , Eugen Bacon , Marian Denise Moore , Rafeeat Aliyu , Suyi Davies Okungbowa , Odida Nyabundi , Michael Boatman

Book cover of Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora

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Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman's pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to…

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Eugen Bacon

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Dominion is a unique black speculative fiction that integrates stories from prominent voices from Africa and the diaspora, including Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Dare Segun Falowo, Mame Bougouma Diene, Dilma Dila, and more. Featuring a foreword by Tananarive Due, the award-winning anthology offers African spirituality, magical realism, Afrofuturistic stories, dystopian worlds and tales that confront in many ways colonialism, social injustice, and capitalism.

From Eugen's list on afro-centric speculative fiction from Africa.