Soila Kenya
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🇰🇪 🇳🇬, africanist, womanist, 🏆 data journo at theawjp.org & pop-culturist @coldtakegeeks.bsky.social MA 🎓 @charlesuni.cuni.cz @au.dk @dmjx.bsky.social Re-imagining Africa @africansffhype.bsky.social Check out my Feeds and Lists tabs ↓↓↓ www.soilakenya.com
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Thanks to everyone who helped with this! I've figured the best way to populate the African SFF hype feed is to use the hashtag #africansff, so please do so while posting your work! Here's the link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Hey! If you're an African SFF author on here, I'm looking for you! I'd like to create a feed with all of you in one place so we know where to find you! Also, if you know any and see this, please tag them below! 🧡
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So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours.

hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...
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Thanks girl! ❤️
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Thank you! 🥹🫂
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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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$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.
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...
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I'm attending #SeattleWorldcon2025 virtually and I'm a panelist on 2 sessions. Hope I bump into y'all (I'm in the discord as well)
Soila Kenya is an Africanfuturist womanist award-winning data journalist from Kenya. She is an enthusiastic reader of African SFF and the curator of @africansffhype on X and Bluesky. Find her at soilakenya.com 
SESSIONS 
SFF's Role in Revolution on the African Continent Sat Aug 16, 17:30 - 18:30 
The Role of African Spiritualities, History, and Mythology in Speculative Fiction Sun Aug 17, 16:00 - 17:00
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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
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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/
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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.

🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Image of the African Climate Futures book
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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.
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...
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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.’”
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.
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