Describing the recently launched Omenana:
More hereWe are a monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.
“But Africans don’t do speculative fiction!”
This is something a lot of us interested in speculative fiction have heard many times. And in a world where stereotypes have a way of taking flight and travelling, it is now almost accepted as fact.
However, this is a claim that anyone who has ever sat down to listen to tales of spirit husbands, mermaids and forest dwarfs, whose mats have the ability to make one rich, knows to be false. In our folktales animals talked and the gods walked among men; what is called fantasy today was as real as night and day.
