The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 which collected twenty-nine stories by twenty-five writers, which the press describes as "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year." This new anthology introduces three two new editors who join award-winning writer and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki of teh first to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa. Ekpeki is the author of "The Witching Hour," which won a 2019 Nommo award, and the co-editor of two other forthcoming anthologies: the nonfiction collection Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic (with Zelda Knight) and the speculative fiction collection Africa Risen (with Zelda Knight and Sheree Renée Thomas). For the new anthology he is joining forces with Eugen Bacon, a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist and Milton Davis, an award-winning Black Speculative fiction write and editor.