A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee! A NPR * Best of the Year pick!*

A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee! A NPR * Best of the Year pick!*

A Book Riot * Best SFF of the Year pick!"[A]* magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans."--Publishers Weekly, starred review ** ** From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.*A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother's ability to change her appearance--and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter *, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising--it's already here.