Release Date: August 2025 (Paperback out now) Satire / Cyberpunk This hilarious and terrifying novella follows a Silicon Valley AI that tries to "fix" Kenya by remotely firing 80% of the government. It asks: Is efficiency without empathy a form of neocolonialism?
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Why it fits "New Africa": It abandons urban centers entirely, using the landscape as a character without romanticizing poverty. Release Date: August 2025 (Paperback out now) Satire
If there is one genre defining the "new" African book, it is Afrofuturism. While Nnedi Okorafor and N.K. Jemisin have long been champions of this genre, the explosion of interest following the release of Marvel’s Black Panther opened the floodgates. This epic follows four generations of a Somali
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