Description:
From an award-winning team of editors 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 queries a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendant 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 science fiction and fantasy and reaffirms that Africa is not rising--it's already here.
Brief description: Sheree Renée Thomas is a multiple-award-winning author and a widely respected figure in the SFF community. She edited the World Fantasy-winning groundbreaking black speculative-fiction anthologies Dark Matter (2000 and 2004) and was the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois's science-fiction short stories. She was a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Award-Professional category for contributions to the genre and is the co-host of the 2021 Hugo Awards Ceremony with Malka Older.