Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Volume 1
About this ebook
A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased father—literally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.
About the author
Zelda Knight writes speculative romance (horror, science fiction, and fantasy). She’s also a cryptozoologist in training. Under the pen name Odyssey Rose, Zelda explores science fiction romance. She pens LGBTQIA+ speculative romance using the pen name Iris Sword. Keep in touch on social media @AuthorZKnight. Or, visit www.zeldaknight.com. You can also email zelda@zeldaknight.com.
Nicole Givens Kurtz's short stories have appeared in over 30 anthologies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her novels have been finalists for the EPPIEs, Dream Realm, and Fresh Voices in science fiction awards. Her work has appeared in Stoker Finalist, Sycorax's Daughters, and in such professional anthologies as Baen's Straight Outta Tombstone and Onyx Path's The Endless Ages Anthology. Visit Nicole's other worlds online at Other Worlds Pulp, www.nicolegivenskurtz.com.
Dilman Dila is a writer, filmmaker, and author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun. His works have been listed in several prestigious prizes, including a nomination for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards (2019), a long list for BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition (2014), and a short list for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013). Dila’s short fiction and non-fiction writings have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Uncanny Magazine, A World of Horror, AfroSF v3, and the Apex Book of World SF 4. His films have won many awards in major festivals on the African continent.
Eugen Bacon is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. Her work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest and Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards. Eugen is a recipient of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Emerging Writer-in-Residence 2020. Publications: Claiming T-Mo, Meerkat Press. Writing Speculative Fiction, Macmillan. In 2020: A Pining, Meerkat Press. Black Moon, IFWG. Inside the Dreaming, Newcon Press.
Nuzo Onoh is a Nigerian/British writer of African Horror. She holds a Law Degree and a master’s degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Dubbed “The Queen of African Horror” by fans and media, Nuzo has featured on multiple media platforms as well as delivered talks on African Horror at numerous venues, including Libraries, the Warwick University Law Society and the prestigious Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, London. To date she’s the only African Horror writer to have featured in Starburst Magazine, the world's longest-running magazine of cult entertainment. Nuzo is included in the reference book, “80 Black Women in Horror” and her writing has featured in multiple anthologies. Her short story, GUARDIANS, which won second place in the Nosetouch Press contest and featured in THE ASTERISK ANTHOLOGY: VOLUME 2, is arguably the first African Cosmic horror story published. She lives in Coventry with her cat, Tinkerbell.
Marian Denise Moore converted a childhood love of science into a career in computing analysis. Her love of literature led her to writing both poetry and fiction. Her poems have been published in periodicals ranging from Bridges to Asimov’s SF. Her fiction has appeared in the anthology “Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic” and the online journal, rigorous-mag.com. While Marian did some writing while attending LSU-BR, she began to first sharpen her skills in George Alec Effinger’s UNO workshop and then in NOMMO Literary Society, led by the New Orleans writer and activist Kalamu ya Salaam. Her book of poetry, Louisiana Midrash, was published by UNO Press/Runagate in January 2019.
Dare Segun Falowo is a writer of the Nigerian Weird. His work sometimes draws on Yoruba cosmology, Nollywood and pulp fiction. He has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Brittle Paper, the Dark and Saraba Magazine. He haunts Ibadan and tweets @dragonsinlagos.
Rafeeat Aliyu is a writer, editor and documentary filmmaker based in Abuja, Nigeria. Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Expound and Omenana magazines, as well as Queer Africa 2 and the AfroSF Anthology of African Science Fiction anthology. Along with Chitra Nagarajan and Azeenarh Mohammed, Rafeeat edited She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak.
Rafeeat is a Clarion West Graduate (2018). You can learn more about her on her website rafeeataliyu.com.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of speculative fiction inspired by his West-African origins. He is the author of the highly anticipated Nigerian godpunk debut, David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019). His shorter works have appeared internationally (or are forthcoming) in periodicals like Tor.com, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Fireside, Podcastle, The Dark and anthologies like Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, A World of Horror and People of Colour Destroy Science Fiction. He lives between Lagos, Nigeria and Tucson, Arizona where he teaches writing while completing his MFA in Creative Writing. He tweets at @IAmSuyiDavies and is @suyidavies everywhere else. Learn more at suyidavies.com.
Odida Nyabundi is a reader, writer, and blogger who works as a copywriter in the advertising world. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Maseno University and has two blogs: Cartastrophe about his enduring passion for cars, and Freeze Frame which takes a gritty look at various snippets of life usually through a supernatural lens. Odida has also published four short stories in Manure Fresh, which is a local Kenyan publication that showcases up and coming writing talent on sale in Nairobi.
Odida has been writing from as long as he can remember. He has also dabbled in many things including stints as a broadcast reporter, a butcher, and a beekeeper. He loves science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and has an abiding interest in African culture and folklore.
Mame Bougouma Diene is a Franco–Senegalese American humanitarian living in Brooklyn, New York, and the US/Francophone spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society (http://www.africansfs.com/). You can find his work in Brittle Paper, Omenana, Galaxies Magazine, Edilivres, Fiyah!, Truancy Magazine, EscapePod and Strange Horizons, and in anthologies such as AfroSFv2 & V3 (Storytime), Myriad Lands (Guardbridge Books), You Left Your Biscuit Behind (Fox Spirit Books), This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck Wit (Clash Media), and Sunspot Jungle (Rosarium Publishing). His collection Darks Moons Rising on a Starless Night published last year by Clash Books, was nominated for the 2019 Splatterpunk Award.
Michael Boatman stories have appeared in places like Horror Garage, and Weird Tales, and in anthologies like Dark Delicacies III: Haunted, and Sick Things. He’s the author of three novels, Revenant Road, Last God Standing, and “Who Wants to be the Prince of Darkness?” By day, Michael is an actor, currently co-starring on the CBS drama, The Good Fight.
Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald is a Nigerian writer and editor, who studied law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. The Nommo Awards–hosted by the African Speculative Fiction Society, which recognizes works of speculative fiction by Africans–awarded him the Best Short Story Award for his short story “The Witching Hour.”
He has also been recognised by the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, which awarded him two Honourable Mentions. His award-winning short story The Witching Hour, published in Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores made the Tangent Online recommended reading list for 2018 with two stars. He has been published in Dwart online, Anotherealm, African Writer, Strange Horizons and the Selene Quarterly.
