I have achieved the ultimate. I have been chibi-fied 🙌🏾 Praise be

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*done

The last dance for Fraser-Pryce | World Athletics For once, the woman widely regarded as the greatest female sprinter the world has seen wanted to take it slow

Aww, I can't believe my height-mate (almost, I'm 2cm taller than her lol) is fine with the tracks. She's seemed immortal all these years...

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Btw we're so few on here lol

Maybe the last time I will comment about the genre/sff scene (and maybe it will not be the last time).

There is so much nastiness, so much bullying that sometimes you forget that you have the kind folk.

The brutality forces people into silence. But the kind folk are there. Just hidden.

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term - BBC News A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

Oh, he tried it...

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Tokoloshe Hunters ships worldwide!

I called myself 'James' on my résumé and finally got a job. Here's why I've started using my birth name again at work. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 28-year-old Mwangi Wanjau, who is from Kenya and based in Canada

This is a common conundrum for us marginalised folks now that the world is so globalised but I'm super lucky to have an easily pronounceable name 😀

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So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours.

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Thanks girl! ❤️

Thank you! ❤️

Thank you! 🥹🫂

I passed my Master's thesis defence yesterday! 🙌🏾

It's the hardest journey I've ever had to take academically so far because my mental health broke down severally due to unrelated issues, but I made it! 😭🤟🏾

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Great Fantasy Novels With Unlikely Heroes

Oooh love this list by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social !

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August 2025 reads

Here's almost every book I read in August (not true, but mostly true). Everything was pretty good! But here are links to reviews so far, more to come: Patchwork x Tom Comitta The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella x Eugen Bacon Weepers x Peter Mendelsund The Frequency…

The King Must Die|Paperback From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Splinter in the Sky comes a pulse-pounding science fiction adventure following the daughter of rebel instigators and the heir of a power-drunk ruler who te...

THE KING MUST DIE comes out in just two months!

And if you have a B&N Rewards or B&N Premium Membership, you can save 25% on preorders during the next 3 days! (The Rewards membership is free. 😉)

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Support African Translation Project African Translation Project; Current Goal: $2500 by the end of August - to begin translation of: The Crocodile Doesn’t Hunt / Zvinobvinza by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa...

$4600 over the next 17 days is not a big ask for the English-speaking literary world, and nothing I am seeing here at #Worldcon is changing that opinion. Please support. Please share. We can do this.

I truly believe that in fighting genAI, it is at least as important to support human language.

#africansff

{2025 New Release} Birth of a Dynasty : A Novel by: Chinaza Bado Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families’ fight for power in Ahkebulin, a land where magic is feared, giants are real, and prophecy holds sway. We shall not forgive. We shall not forget.

Birth of a Dynasty is a novel inspired by African myths, geography, and culture, but with a wholly fresh spin to the genre with an incredible cast of characters that immediately feel fully realized, intense high-stakes, political intrigue, and a magic system that creates a dangerous and unforgiving

It’s finally here!

African Folktales for the Young at Heart by Abubakar Yusuf Ibrahim is out now 🎉

A vibrant collection of Hausa stories—filled with tricksters, talking animals, and timeless wisdom.

Grab your copy: www.iskanchi.com/product/afri...

#AfricanFolktales #Iskanchi

Will This Be A Problem? is open for non-fiction submissions (essays & reviews) until the 16th!

Send in your reviews & essays that highlight African spec fic in its many forms.

Submission guidelines: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/submissions/

African sci-fi imagines new ways of living in climate-changed worlds In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.

In the @theconversation.com, he shows how stories by Okorafor, Onwualu, Tsamaase & others critique colonialism, climate injustice & exclusion.

These Africanfuturist tales imagine bold alternatives to today’s dominant climate narratives.

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📘 African Climate Futures by Carl Death @uompols.bsky.social is out now with Oxford University Press

It explores how African climate fiction can challenge mainstream climate politics, blending postcolonial, feminist & queer theory.

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Book Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor's 'Death of the Author' is significant in imparting agency to its Black readers who want to explore africanfuturism, redefining Black scholarship through science fiction and proving tha...

Nnedi Okorafor's 'Death of the Author' is significant in imparting agency to its Black readers who want to explore africanfuturism, redefining Black scholarship through science fiction and proving that scientific development does not exclusively lie outside literature or within Western countries.

The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack It’s Afrofuturism’s time in the sun (Black skin gleaming with Vaseline), and Ytasha L. Womack is its prophet.

The last review of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism week is from
@hararereview.bsky.social on Ytasha L. Womack’s The Afrofuturist Evolution.

She reprises a theme of the week: “Afrofuturism is not just an ‘artistic aesthetic’ but also ‘a practice and a method.’”

GODS: UNTOLD - AFRICA A continuation of our successful anthology GODS: Untold, but with a focus on African gods by African creators! It's time to be told!

Have you supported the latest #kickstarter project from @paganinistories.bsky.social yet? Gods Untold Africa is live now. Comics on African myth. Find it here:

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Africanfuturism Short Stories | Submissions We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!

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By: Olivia Jackson on Friday, July 11, 2025