Welcome! I hope you're doing well this week. Today I've brought you two stories that I happened to read on the same day, which was lovely. They have very different vibes to them, but some of the them...

Welcome! I hope you're doing well this week. Today I've brought you two stories that I happened to read on the same day, which was lovely. They have very different vibes to them, but some of the them...

Habiba is submerged in an ocean of geckos. She is drowning. She can’t breathe. She opens her mouth for air but geckos wrestle into the new space. When she finally bobs up, she sucks in an atmosphere o...

Then the sound died. A silence fell. And one by one, the lanterns blinked out. He turned to run but the city dissolved underneath his feet — like sand slipping from a gourd. He woke up choking on

Bala waits until her breathing is even before the smile leaves his face. He runs his hands softly through her hair, staring at her. His eyes, brightening until they are a fiery orange.“I told you, you...

I had left her five times before, in seasons she named after hope: Joko, Bamidele, Durotimi, Bamitale. I watched each name wither on her tongue. But the sixth time, I paused.

Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.

"Once they hit the market everyone wanted one, and I mean everyone. It had been decades since anyone had a real one, so the idea that we could all have a try and see what it had been like in the old d...

Omenana Speculative Fiction magazine issue 33. We recommit ourselves to the task of holding space for African imaginations that bend time, twist memory, and summon futures.

We are very much interested in works that explore alternative futures for Africa and people of African descent. We would also like to see explorations of the past as well as new interpretations of myt...

December's best fiction includes monsters, murder, and queer angst.

This is the Portuguese translations of selected stories from Omenana Speculative fiction magazine, a quarterly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa a...

Issue 30 of Omenana Speculative fiction magazine features new and reprint works by speculative fiction writers from across Africa. All the contributors have been published in the magazine in the past.