Medical Doctor. SFF/H writer. CANEX Writing Workshop 25 Alumnus. FR/ENG/WO. Words in Omenana, Africa Risen, Blackened Roots, F&SF, Sauúti Terrors, The Dark.
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I’m very pleased to share that Apostasy in Fruit, published in Issue 120 of @thedarkmagazine, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Nommo Awards ✨
So thankful to my fellow ASFS members for nominating this story, and to The Dark for giving it a home!
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Our October edition is out now!
Featuring: fiction by Charles Kadib and Pearl Bunyazi; poetry by Abigail George
and Felix Eshiet; and nonfiction by Tony Simo Dzumgang (in French).
lolwe.org
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My flash fiction titled, A Guide on How to Repay Your Vow to the Deity of Many Faces, published in @LightspeedMag is among the top ten stories featured in @reactormag
must-read stories in the September issue. 😍😊😋
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Hello,
My latest novel The Gele Gang will be available in February 2027.
It is the first of my post-lockdown novels. Inspired by Nigerian weddings I attended, it looks and feels like lime sorbet. It's light, sweet and tart, and cleansed my palate for my next course.
Sefi
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO THE CITY OF FACTORIES, my debut African steampunk novella, and my labor of love. 🥳❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s out into the world and you can find it on Amazon worldwide. Link in my bio.
Also, SPOT MY FREEDOM PERMIT. You have ONE WEEK to buy my books or someone or something might come for your mom.😌❤️❤️
Thank you to everyone who supported me! Love y’all. Add my books to goodreads, please!
Cheers!
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i hope we use this moment to close ranks, protect our writers and build our own ecosystem. through collaboration, we can have a vibrant and successful industry that doesn’t always beg and wait for western validation. we are capable!
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the truth is, tomorrow, every media outlet in africa will sit in silence, watching western media tear down an emerging african writer and drag an entire literary prize through the mud. our headlines will return to the usual nonsense: corruption scandals and celebrities’ bedroom affairs. meanwhile, the world is busy shaping narratives about our literature, our writers, and our cultural institutions, and we cannot even be bothered to defend them. what a serious media culture. please come out tomorrow for your people @EiiScanty @benkoku @kwadwosheldon @CalebAhinakwah @bbnasiba @mensaduncan @VicMensa 🙏
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
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for most young african writers, being shortlisted for the caine prize is a career highlight and a game-changer. i imagine it’s the same for simbarashe. to have this moment yanked from him, to have this level of malice thrown at him is just cruel. i hope he feels protected.
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all it takes is an accusation of this kind to ruin a writer’s life. especially one so young and just starting out their career. some of these antagonists only show up in the ecosystem when it’s time to pull someone down. i hate it. i hate it. i hate it.
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They used our writing to train AI. Then used AI, trained on our writing, to check if we had used AI to write the writings we were still writing after they USED OUR WRITINGS TO TRAIN AI.
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only been six days since launch and we’ve been getting orders(!!!). grateful for the support and the feedback too as we refine what lolwe store can be.
check it out: lolwe.org/store
stayed up all night working on the some lolwe stuff including the monthly edition, some merch and a few other things to be launched next year. the edition is out, read it. and here’s the merch store: lolwe.org/store
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My debut novel will be released on the 3rd of November, 2026. I am incredibly happy to see this dream become reality.
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Pub day! I'm so glad that Nameless Saviors is now available to read.
What if you could save a country that would rather kill you than admit its problems?
It has government corruption, drunk shenanigans, and final year stress 😌. Enjoy!
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Unboxing my book baby had me all in my feelings. African steampunk was a challenge and I’m so proud of myself for pulling it off.💪
I started writing Alabi’s story in 2022. And I knew I’d always wanted it to be published as a standalone with a publisher. I feel so lucky to have it in my hands.
Special thanks to everyone who made this a reality! Most of them aren’t on twitter but thank you! And a thank you to @RuadanBooks
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i’m not certain it will happen in my lifetime (i’m already halfway out) but i hope someday black people all over the world can come together to build our own institutions at every level on our own terms. this has been my dream and it’s why i push @lolwe_ so hard.
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ADELEHIN IJASAN, author of A Dying Giant in the Palm of Your Hand . . . IS BACK!
COVER REVEAL
In This Body Once Held Fire, gods are packed into suitcases, memories can be traded for a chance to belong, and teleportation can cost you your life.
