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A Kenyan-based SFFH literary journal showcasing the very best in African fantastika. Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology now available: https://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/issue-5/ EIC: @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app Everything WTBAP?: https://linktr.ee/WTBAP
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · Aug 27
ICYMI: The Future Ancients by Mwenya S. Chikwa is a 2025 Nommo Award finalist in the Short Story category

Chikwa's work was aptly described as “a wildly imaginative and enjoyable Africanfuturist space opera” by Reactor Mag.

So well deserved. Congratulations, @prisoner187.bsky.social
Story cover of “The Future Ancients” by Mwenya S. Chikwa published in Issue 1 of WTBAP? The Magazine. The artwork shows three futuristic figures in stylised armour standing on rocky terrain under a purple sky, with a massive spacecraft hovering behind them. Text on the cover reads: The Future Ancients. The Nommo Nominated Short Story. A red badge notes: Nommo Finalist 2025. A review quote by Wole Talabi says: “…a wildly imaginative and enjoyable Africanfuturist space opera.” Shilitza Publishing Group logo is displayed at the bottom.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 2d
You can grab a copy of Issue V from Shilitza Publishing website. Copies available in both paperback and ebook formats.

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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology : Issue V (ebook)
From across the African continent and its diaspora, Will This Be A Problem? Issue V brings together a powerful collection of stories that blend the fantastical with the deeply real. These tales explor...
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 2d
“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here” by @yvettel.bsky.social recounts when a planet called earth met its demise as told by Anansi’s cousin, the spirit of drunkenness.

Read the full story in Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology.
Excerpt from Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s ”Dinosaurs Once Lived Here”, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a reddish background with abstract circular accents and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt reads: The earth grows mouths and swallows cities whole. This is how the world ends. I lived on earth as a human, and it is this voice through which I tell this story. The teething, as it is come to be known, begins at the borders like molars breaking through a toddler's gums. The earth gazes upon borders, scrolling at the invention. How absurd to partition it's body into little hateful segments, putting up grotesque gates and barricades when the planet belongs to everyone and no one at once. The earth's rage bubbles to the surface from its core, there were many on the planet who had never experienced some of its corners. Only those with blue and red booklets were granted the leave to go where they wished, the ones with green booklets caged like birds longing to fly south. Introduction by Olivia Kidula for "Dinosaurs Once Lived Here" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a red background with teal and grey accents, the WTBAP logo and stylised quote marks. Main text reads: And, of course, speculative fiction revels in pushing the boundaries of reality beyond our own. We see this in Victor Forna’s “Mr. Original Swag,” where an offer to escape the ordinary comes with strings attached. Say yes to Mr. Original Swag, and he will hold your hand, fit his rust-orange fedora on his head, and dance you out of the world. Take you to his arena, outside space and time.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 6d
”The Sirangori Fey Market” is one of the sixteen stories published in Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology.

Find Ephraim's story here: amazon.com/dp/B0DSPNNLRB
Teal textured background titled “Short Story: The Sirangori Fey Market” on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text describes what the book is about and what to expect. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. A promotional graphic set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Read The Sirangori Fey Market Prominently displayed in the centre is the cover of Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 6d
One of his recent works, “Rosette Spots,” was published in the Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope. The story follows a solitary guardian of an abandoned village as he searches for traces of his past and the truth of who he has become.

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Teal textured background titled “Short Story: Rosette Spots” on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text describes what the story is about and mentions it’s published in the Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope Magazine. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. A promotional graphic set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Read Rosette Spots Prominently displayed in the centre is the cover of the Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 6d
Author Spotlight: @ephraimorji.bsky.social

The Nigerian writer’s fiction has appeared in Omenana Magazine, Eboquills, Flame Tree’s African Ghost Story Collection, Kaleiodotrope, Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology and more.
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Ephraim N. Orji set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Author Spotlight. Below the photo, his name, “Ephraim N. Orji,” is displayed in golden lettering. Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Ephraim N. Orji on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text introduces him as a Nigerian writer and avid reader. It highlights his published works in various publications, as well as his stort, Horror’s Many Sounds and Faces, a finalist for the 2020 Awele Creative Trust Award. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 9d
“The Soulless” by Peter Nena explores what happens when a man wagers his soul for survival and discovers the futility of dealing with powers beyond human grasp.

Full story in Issue I of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology:

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Excerpt from “The Soulless” by Peter Nena, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue III. Displayed on a textured reddish background with starry & planet designs and the WTBAP logo. Main excerpt reads: There was a place in Karen where the Devil sometimes came through to Nairobi. It was an open field of about a quarter of an acre with a few tall trees, sporadic thickets, and patches of stunted grass. The trees and the thickets had yellow, sickly leaves and the grass was mostly burnt. But a building usually appeared there just moments before the Devil stepped out of a wall. It was an enormous building and it disappeared as soon as the Devil was gone. I had thought once that perhaps I should set traps there with massive chains, hooks and barbed wire—or even with a modified rat trap intended for something his size—and catch him unawares and torture him until he surrendered my soul. But I did not know what could hold him. He was a gigantic thing, and as heartless as only he could be. If he overcame the traps, he’d find me and squish me underneath his feet. Or worse, he would give my soul to Moloch. He had said that if I did not fulfil my end of the bargain, he would give my soul to Moloch. At the bottom, the website link appears. A promotional graphic with the cover of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue I. The background is deep red with abstract circles, planets and stars. Below, in large letters: Available on Website An arrow points to the book cover with a list of contributors. The cover illustration shows a regal figure in a red cape and blue suit standing on a reflective ground with mountains and stormy skies in the background. The website address appears at the bottom of the graphic.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 10d
“Mr Original Swag” by Victor Forna follows a flamboyant otherworldly being who will dance you out of the world. He offers an escape from the mundane, but at a steep price.

The story is published in our fifth anthology. Get a copy here: amazon.com/dp/B0DSPNNLRB

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Excerpt from Victor Forna’s “Mr. Original Swag”, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a reddish background with abstract circular accents and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt reads: I only put it together when I returned to blood and flesh. Mr. Original Swag and the mysterious statuary around Freetown. They started showing up way before he came to me. Correct me if I am wrong, but has this not been ongoing for four years? I didn’t see the connection that day at Kroo Town Road, but this is what I learned while away and since I came back—when Mr. Original Swag walks off with you, it is your soul and not your body that he travels lightyears with, that he takes across dimensions and quantum fields. Your soul. Or whatever energy lives beyond the physical. You want to know more about that? Okay. Too much description could affect the pacing of the interview. Nevermind. You know better than me, anyway. Introduction by Olivia Kidula for "Mr. Original Swag” by Victor Forna, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a red background with teal and grey accents, the WTBAP logo and stylised quote marks. Main text reads: And, of course, speculative fiction revels in pushing the boundaries of reality beyond our own. We see this in Victor Forna’s “Mr. Original Swag,” where an offer to escape the ordinary comes with strings attached. Say yes to Mr. Original Swag, and he will hold your hand, fit his rust-orange fedora on his head, and dance you out of the world. Take you to his arena, outside space and time.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 12d
This special tenth-anniversary edition presents the crème de la crème of our past decade’s publications. Each narrative in this volume is a unique testament to the anthology’s mission.

Get a copy from our bookstore or place your order here: shilitzapublishing.com/product/will...
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 13d
Albert Nkereuwem's “Commensalism, or the Labyrinth's Vessels” is one of the 16 exceptional stories published in our latest anthology issue, which is also available for sale.

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Teal textured background titled “Short Story: Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text describes what the story is about and mentions it’s published in Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 13d
“The Bone River” is a sapphic urban fantasy set in a Calabar where necromancers, river deities and fire-wielding magicians rule over a supernatural community on the brink of war.

Get a copy via Ouida Books: ouidalagos.com/product/pre-...
Teal textured background titled “Debut Novel: The Bone River” on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text describes what the book is about and what to expect. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom A promotional graphic set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Support His Book. Prominently displayed in the centre is the cover of "The Bone River”.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 13d
We’re kicking off our Author Spotlight series with Nigerian writer @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, whose debut novel, The Bone River, has just been released! Huge congratulations!

His work has been published in various outlets, including Omenana, Fusion Fragment, FIYAH, Vector Magazine, WTBAP and more.
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Nkereuwem Albert set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Author Spotlight. Below the photo, his name, “Nkereuwem Albert,” is displayed in golden lettering. Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Nkereuwem Albert on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text introduces him as a Nigerian speculative fiction writer and dentist, born in Lagos and his works shaped by his years in Calabar. It highlights his published short fiction and essays in various publications, as well as his prize-winning story, The House of Old Marian. It also mentions his sapphic urban fantasy debut novel, The Bone River. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 16d
Nena’s story first appeared in our second issue, where it even inspired the cover art. It returns in our 10th Anniversary Edition, a collection of the very best from the past decade. Grab your copy today for only Ksh 1,250.

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 16d
Peter Nena’s “I Shot The Cheating Bastard” explores the unravelling of a mind pushed to the edge by love and loss, showing how life slips into chaos despite our attempts to hold it together.

Read full story here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2015/11/28/i...
He had been an unequalled companion ever since she got dumped like an excess load. There was a book she had read about living with animals. It said that living with animals helped you to discover your humanity. But that was bullshit. You were already a human. You couldn’t find out what you were intrinsically, for even the process of that discovery was characteristic of your humanity. She had learnt from living with Q.O. that being an animal wasn’t bad. It was great. People thought animals were terrible because people were terrible. Being an animal was perhaps the best thing to happen to you, especially if you could keep off the clever know-it-all humans, who were perpetually on fire even if they thought they were underwater. Being a human meant that assholes and elbows surrounded you for the rest of your life, ruled (and overruled) by them. And your heart was breakfast for the goblins. A promotional graphic featuring a textured beige background with elegant orange and teal curved accents in the corners. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, while the website's URL sits at the bottom. Prominently displayed in the center is the cover of "Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: 10th Anniversary Edition."
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 16d
In Mark Lekan Lalude’s “The Mortuary Man”, the dead are not always silent. A night attendant’s grip on reality frays and the descent into the macabre unfolds with chilling precision.

Full story in Issue III of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology:

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Excerpt from “The Mortuary Man” by Mark Lekan Lalude, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue III. Displayed on a textured reddish background with starry & planet designs and the WTBAP logo. Main excerpt reads: The gurney was the vehicle that brought in the dead. Limp, silent and unresisting; the dead laid covered in blue rumpled sheets. Sometimes their flesh quivered in the careless abandon of death. The men that wheeled the gurneys to the room where the bodies were kept had little to say. In their blue, numbered work cloths, in the unhealthy darkness of their flesh and with tired yellow eyes, they presented a near picture of morbidness. At certain periods, a straggly crowd arrived with a hearse to take away an aged father, or a mother who died of brief illnesses, or a young son who was caught in fraternity violence at the university. All the bodies were said to be the same when taken for burial; ashen and stiff. At the bottom, the website link appears. A promotional graphic with the cover of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue III. The background is deep red with abstract circles, planets and stars. Below, in large letters: Available on Website An arrow points to the book cover with a list of contributors. The cover illustration shows a stylised figure of a child in red clothing, wearing aviator goggles and holding a spear, standing beside a large wolf-like creature. Behind them is a cloudy sky and a dark planet or moon. The website address appears at the bottom of the graphic.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
Do you read and review science fiction, fantasy or horror? We’d love to send you a copy of Issue V. We have physical copies available if you're in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, the US, UK, Canada, France, Australia or India.

More info here >
Graphic poster set on a dark teal textured background with floral accents and the WTBAP logo at the top. Main heading reads: Calling SFFH Book Reviewers. Main message reads: Will This Be A Problem? is inviting science fiction, fantasy and horror book reviewers to review our fifth issue of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology. We can send physical copies to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, the US, the UK, Canada, France, Australia and India. Note that you don’t have to be African/BIPOC. If you aren’t, we ask that you have a significant following or write for a decent-sized publication. Below is a contact email highlighted in red. The website address is at the bottom.
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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 18d
Will always be grateful for the day I submitted to WTBAP? Anthology!

Go read us!🙈
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
“Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth” by Peter Nena

“Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” by @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

“Acceptance” by Khaya Maseko

“Ash Baby” by Andrew Dakalira

“The Sirangoi Fey Market” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Main text reads: And amidst all the commentary and the sensibilities, the anthology resists categorisation throughout. It refuses to be cramped inside boxes. It never consents to one definition. Peter Nena’s “Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth,” for example, features creatures with donkey-human-bat traits that are cursed by an ancient witch preying on kids through their dreams; Albert Nkereuwem’s “Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” has a sentient slime trying to understand humanity after having taken it over and Khaya Maseko’s “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously. Elsewhere, Andrew Dakalira’s “Ash Baby” imagines the Biblical tale of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims; and “The Sirangoi Fey Market” by Ephraim Orji is located in a bazaar existing on the cusp of the sane and the mystical, the worldly and the otherworldly, as a woman seeks a shaman to execute. A promotional graphic with a textured teal background, orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. At the centre is WTBAP’s anthology cover for Issue V.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
While this review highlights some of the stories, Issue V offers many more for your reading pleasure. You can order a copy here:

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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology : Issue V
From across the African continent and its diaspora, Will This Be A Problem? Issue V brings together a powerful collection of stories that blend the fantastical with the deeply real. These tales explor...
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
“Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth” by Peter Nena

“Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” by @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

“Acceptance” by Khaya Maseko

“Ash Baby” by Andrew Dakalira

“The Sirangoi Fey Market” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Main text reads: And amidst all the commentary and the sensibilities, the anthology resists categorisation throughout. It refuses to be cramped inside boxes. It never consents to one definition. Peter Nena’s “Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth,” for example, features creatures with donkey-human-bat traits that are cursed by an ancient witch preying on kids through their dreams; Albert Nkereuwem’s “Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” has a sentient slime trying to understand humanity after having taken it over and Khaya Maseko’s “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously. Elsewhere, Andrew Dakalira’s “Ash Baby” imagines the Biblical tale of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims; and “The Sirangoi Fey Market” by Ephraim Orji is located in a bazaar existing on the cusp of the sane and the mystical, the worldly and the otherworldly, as a woman seeks a shaman to execute. A promotional graphic with a textured teal background, orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. At the centre is WTBAP’s anthology cover for Issue V.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here,” by @yvettel.bsky.social
“The Clans” by Tonny Ogwa
“The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” by Shingai Kagunda @shingai-be-like.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Text reads: Colonisation and racism are also recurring themes. In “Dinosaurs Once Lived Here,” a story chronicling the many ways the planet Earth might have ended, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu writes, “Empathy only blooms for faces the colour of snow mushrooms, so the world blinks and continues about their day, sipping mimosas at overpriced brunch spots with grass walls.” In “The Clans” by Tonny Ogwa, meanwhile, a priest is “governing” over a group of clans, the white man granting “[t]he Clans and other African clans the rights to be people, albeit to lesser degrees of ‘peopleness.’” An excerpt graphic from “If Memory Serves” by Kevin Rigathi, published in Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology. Design is displayed on a teal background with orange and teal accents, the WTBAP logo at the top, and the story title and stylised quote marks at the bottom. Main text reads: Shingai Kagunda’s “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” reimagines Desmond Tutu’s famous line as something more insidious. “When the missionaries came to Africa,” Tutu reflected, “they had the Bible, and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.” In Kagunda’s world, the colonial project doesn’t end with the land being taken; it continues in the mind. The white man lures the empire’s subjects into backroom deals, offers them a taste of power, and spits down vita—a parasitic creature of war, ukatili, brutality, violence, whichever you want to call it—between the lips of the new national leaders. Once inside, the vita speaks through you, bends your thoughts to its will. The newly minted national leaders, the empire’s chosen successors, find themselves repeating the coloniser’s violence back to their people, their agency already eaten away from within.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 18d
The review features stories like:

“If Memory Serves” by @formerlykevin.bsky.social

“The Market of Memories” by Azara Tswanya
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Text reads: Class divide, that ancient scar, is a recurring theme. “If Memory Serves” features a corporation which mass-produces a memory-wiping process, profiting by erasing memories but then selling them as luxuries to the rich and the privileged, those who want to experience the joys and hardships of others. The more people wipe, though, the less they remember. And the less they remember, the less they become. Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Text reads: Azara Tswanya’s “The Market of Memories” travels the same road, except that the divisions here are more pronounced, more binding, more blinding. The poor are forced to sell their memories, their associations, and their experiences for crumbs, while the rich gorge on their stories with a collector’s entitlement. Tswanya writes: When the rich had gathered so much money that nothing could excite them anymore, the prospect of experiencing what others did, especially the poor, became riveting. It gave them a choice without ever truly suffering, like a city boy who visited his village once a year and then boasted about its magnificence to his friends. These are dystopias, yes, but their shadows belong to a world we already know.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 19d
@strangehorizons.bsky.social describes Issue V as a chaotic, genre-defying constellation of stories that resists categorisation and models a form of narrative rebellion 🧵

Read the latest review by @amritesh.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Graphic set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents and the WTBAP logo. Below the logo, teal text reads: What reviewers are saying about. Followed by bold black text: Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. In the centre stands a man wearing a bright orange patterned suit, surrounded by a trail of colourful stars and sparkles flowing across the bottom. Website URL appears at the bottom, with three red swipe arrows pointing right in the lower corner. Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Text reads: The book is the latest product of a thriving speculative fiction ecosystem across the African continent. Over the last decade, African writers have been reclaiming genre spaces, building their own speculative traditions rooted in local myth and anti-colonial politics. Many of these writers consciously draw on Africanfuturism, a term coined by Nnedi Okorafor, a mode of imagining that keeps its gaze rooted in Africa—its cultures and its histories—rather than relying on Western filters.
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 19d
First appearing in Issue I, “War of Harmony” makes its return in our 10th Anniversary Edition, which presents the crème de la crème of our past decade's publications. Grab your copy today for only KES 1,250.

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 19d
Kevin Rigathi’s “War of Harmony” tells of a music teacher turned god, whose every act of creation is shadowed by destruction, forcing him to confront the inseparability of the two.

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Excerpt from “Where The Gods Go” by Kevin Rigathi published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: 10th Anniversary Edition. Design is set on a textured beige and orange background with abstract circular accents, spiral motifs and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt text reads: Nairobi was, once again, gone. Where the city had stood just hours before, it was little more than an extended cinder. The skyline hadn’t just been altered… there wasn’t one. Previously existing skyscrapers had collapsed, entire streets levelled—an entire city reduced to mounds of debris and dark clouds of smoke within mere minutes. Ikinya looked over it all, waiting for something to happen, but there was only silence. There were no screams of pain or cries for help out in the smoke; there was just a quiet, fallen city. This time, there were no survivors. Power was already surging through him; he wanted to rebuild the city but decided against it. What would have been the point? Rebuilding Nairobi would have just been a cosmetic change then. No one was in the city, and nobody would be willing to venture in for some days. It could wait. A promotional graphic with a textured beige background with curved orange and teal corner accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. At the centre is the cover of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: 10th Anniversary Edition.
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Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology made its way to the Baltimore Book Festival! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and showed love at the event.

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A display table at the Baltimore Book Festival featuring stacks of books. On the right, copies of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V are stacked with a cover showing a person in an orange suit standing against a cloudy sky, with a large spectral face emerging from the clouds above. Other visible titles include The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope, Deathless Divide and Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland, and The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson.
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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology : Issue V
From across the African continent and its diaspora, Will This Be A Problem? Issue V brings together a powerful collection of stories that blend the fantastical with the deeply real. These tales explor...
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