The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 TOC & Recommended Reading List

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 will be out later this year, in the month of November. It’s edited by myself and guest edited by Chinaza Eziaghighala. It will be published by Caezik Books, of Arc Manor. Volume 1 & 2, and the Afropantheology collection were published by a collaboration of Caezik Books and OD Ekpeki Presents. OD Ekpeki Presents is eligible for the 2024 British Fantasy award.

Below, is the Table of Contents for the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3. The YBASF Volume 2 guest edited by Milton Davis and Eugen Bacon is a Locus award finalist, and eligible for the British Fantasy award. You can get it here

YBASF V3 TOC

Nalo Hopkinson – The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of The World. Originally published in Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

Tananarive Due – Suppertime. Originally published in New Suns 2

P Djeli Clark – How To Raise A Kraken In Your Bathtub originally published in Uncanny Magazine

Tobias Buckell – By Throat & Void. Originally published in The Sunday Morning Transport

Tendai Huchu – The Hollowed People. Originally published in Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology

Wole Talabi – Saturday’s Song. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine.

Kemi Ashing-Giwa – Thin Ice. Originally published in Clarkesworld.

Makena Onjerika – The Forest of Talking Animals. Originally published in The Deadlands

Cheryl Ntumy – The Way of Baa’gh. Originally published in Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology

Adelehin Ijasan – The Rafting of Jorge Santa Cruz. Interzone Digital.

Amanda Ilozumba – The Haunting of Kambili. Originally published in Lolwe.

Michelle Iruobe – Parody of the Sower. Originally published in Omenana Magazine.

Gabrielle Emem Harry – A Name Is A Plea and A Prophecy. Originally published in Strange Horizons.

Chisom Umeh – Ncheta. Originally published in Apex Magazine.

Dennis Mugaa – Nairuko. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine.

Vuyokazi Ngemntu – Blood & Ballots. Originally published in Ibua Journal

Chukwu Nwaka – The Rainbow Bank. Originally published in Giganotosaurus.

Moustapha Mbacké Diop – Sirabiri of The Restless. Originally published in Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead.

Oyedotun Damilola – A Journal of Strange Creatures and Beasts from Africa. Originally published in Dark Matter; Monsters Lairs, A Dark Fantasy Horror Anthology

Xan van Rooyen – Lost In The Echoes. Originally published in Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology

The YBASF 2023 Recommended Reading List

Oyedotun Damilola Muees – A Song for the Selkies. From Reckoning mag

Adelehin Ijasan – Xhova. From Mothersound, Saautiverse Anthology

Somto Ihezue and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – A City, A Desert and all their Dirges. From Mothersound, Saautiverse Anthology

Busayo Akinmoju – Kinsmen. From Other and Different (A Coup of Owls 2023 Anthology of diverse fiction)

Jackie Chikambure – One Braid at a Time. From Zim SF #ShonaReads.

Naomi Eselojor – Seventy-year-old Corpse Harvester (Dark Matter Magazine)

Joshua Uchenna Omenga & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – The Pet of Olodumare (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

Adam Oyabanjo – The Wrong Shape To Fly (Worlds Long Lost)

Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga – Fell Ourselves (Giganotosaurus)

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe – Immortality Soup (Lightspeed Magazine)

Dilman Dila – The Terminal Move (Rosarium Publishing)

Joshua Uchenna Omenga & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – Land of the Awaiting Birth (Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology)

Somto Ihezue – A Guide, A Door, An Anchor (Frivolous Comma)

Uchechukwu Nwaka – Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown (Escape Pod)

Ofori-Atta, Nana Afadua – Headphone Boy (Tales and Feathers Magazine)

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu – His Thing (Lightspeed Magazine)

Dilman Dila – The Terminal Move (Rosarium Publishing)

Francis Ogamba – Nurse The Children (Uncharted Magazine)

Plangdi Neple – Dreams, Wires and Nightmares (Translunar Travelers Lounge)

Lerato Mahlangu – Petunia (Fiyah)

Nuzo Onoh – Onyili (Nightmare Magazine)

Masiyaleti Mahlangu – There’s No Hurry In Botswana (The Johannesburg Review of Books)

Victor Forna – Kɛrozin Lamp Kurfi (Apex Magazine)

Stephen Embleton – Undulation (Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Android Press)

Tochi Onyebuch – Jamais Vue (Asimov’s)

Lesley Nneka Arimah – Invasion of the Baby Snatchers (Out There Screaming)

Dare Segun Falowo – October in Eran Riro (Caged Ocean Dub)

Suyi Davies Okungbowa – Lady Koi Koi: A Book Report (Apex Mag)

Tade Thompson – The Luck Thief (The Book of  Witches)

Tobias S Buckell – The Groves Lament (Mothersound: The Sauutiverse Anthology)

Xan Van Rooyen – The Broken Bones of Summer (Mythaxis)

Chinaza Eziagighala – A Dose of Insight ( Planet Scumm)

Tobi Ogundiran – A Midnight In Moscow (Jackal, Jackal)

Mwanabibi Sikamo – Stolen Memories (Omenana Magazine)

Eugen Bacon – Human Beans (European Astrobiology Institute and Laksa Media)

Kofi Nyameye – The Pit of Babel (Asimov’s)

MH Ayinde – The Invoker and Her Quartet (Kaleiodetrope)

Deji Bryce Olukotun – This Is How We Save Them (Life Beyond Us)

J Umeh – Kalabashing. (Mothersound: The Sauutiverse Anthology)

Moses Oseh Utomi – Lies of the Ajungo (Tordotcom)

Eugen Bacon – Sina, The Child With No Echo (Android Press)

Abdulrahim Hussani – The Library Virus (Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia)

NK Jemisin – Reckless Eyeballing (Out There Screaming)

Nnedi Okorafor – Stones (Clarkesworld)

Alex Jennings – Good Night Gracie (New Suns 2)