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8th Nommo Awards 2025 Shortlist Announced
The African Speculative Fiction Society proudly presents the shortlisted finalists for the 8th Nommo Awards 2025.
Discover the voices shaping the future of African literature.
SHORTLISTED WORKS FOR BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION NOVEL
SHORTLISTED WORKS FOR BEST NOVELLA
SHORTLISTED WORKS FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL
SHORTLISTED WORKS FOR BEST SHORT STORIES
Bodies of Sand and Blood by Plangdi Neple
From Across Time
by Chisom Umeh
The Future Ancients
by Mwenya Chikwa
Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine
by Damilola Oyedotun
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
19 August 2025: 2025 Nommo Awards Shortlist Announced at Seattle Worldcon
The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) proudly announced the 2025 Nommo Awards Shortlist during Seattle Worldcon, in an online panel themed “Celebrating the Future: African Speculative Fiction Today.” [Read More here...]
10 December 2024: ASFS Statement and Code of Conduct
We have now published a new Code of Conduct with information on how to report and follow up on unethical behaviour. [Read statement in full here....]
14 October 2024: New Partnership with Imperial College London - Applied African SF
The ASFS has partnered with Imperial College London and in association with University of Nairobi and the International Black Speculative Fiction Writing Festival for a year-long education program including a series of seminars and workshops that will explore futures shaped by AI, automation, synthetic biology, surveillance capitalism, space exploration, nanotechnology and integration into the global industrial economy.... [Read statement in full here....]
Winners of the 7th Nommo Awards 2024
The Best in Speculative Fiction by Africans
ILUBE AWARD FOR BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION NOVEL
Shigdi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
WOLE TALABI
Published by DAW (USA), Gollancz (UK), Masobe (Nigeria)
BEST NOVELLA
Undulation
STEPHEN UMBLETON
Published in Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Android Press
BEST SHORT STORY
A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy
GABRIELLE EMEM HARRY
Published in Strange Horizons
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL
JOINT WINNER
Grimm's Assistant
MAMODE OGBEWELE & CHIGOZIE AMADI (ARTIST)
Published in Mode Comics
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL
JOINT WINNER
WindMaker (Volume 1)
ROYE OKUPE & SUNKANMI AKINBOYE (ARTIST)
Published by Dark Horse Comics, 2022
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