Danged Black Thing, Saving Shadows – BSFA Finalists!

I’d like to thank the British Science Fiction Association and its voting members for shortlisting in the #BSFAAwards2022 my books Danged Black Thing (Best Art: Kara Walker and Peter Lo) – Transit Lounge Publishing and Saving Shadows (Best Art: beautifully illustrated by Elena Betti) – NewCon Press. Congratulations to Luna Press Publishing, and all fellow contributors, for Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, in which my essay (‘Worldbuilding in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi’) is published. Congratulations to Maria Spada, the cover artist ofThe Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, in which I have a story (‘Baba Klep’), and to the editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, together with all fellow contributors of this wonderful anthology. I am honoured to stand alongside friends and peers in the #BSFAAwards2022 shortlist.