Jalada Collaborates on African Speculative Fiction StoryBundle

We are delighted to feature a selection of stories from Jalada 02: AfroFuture(s) in a bumper edition of African Speculative Fiction Bundle curated by Ivor. W. Hartmann. Project Lead, Richard Ali drew from our collection of short stories and poems that centred on the genres of Afrofuturism and AfroSF published in January 2015. The prelude to the anthology featured work by visual artist Wangechi Mutu with an accompanying text by Binyavanga Wainaina. The anthology garnered wide readership and received critical acclaim. Two stories, “eNGAGEMENT” by Richard Oduor Oduku and “A Brief History of Nonduality Studies” by Sofia Samatar, were long-listed for the prestigious 2015 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards.

The Africa Speculative Fiction Bundle draws from 10 journals and features work by established stars such as Nnedi Okorafor, Tade Thompson, and Sarah Lotz, to upcomers like Wole Talabi, Chinelo Onwualu, Nerine Dorman, Dilman Dila.

“This is the most comprehensive collection of African speculative fiction authors ever assembled. With the complete bundle containing nearly 100 authors and over 145 works it stands both as an excellent introduction to the rapidly evolving canon of African SF and a unique one-time collection of their works,” says Hartmann.

For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

AfroSFv1 edited by Ivor W. Hartmann
Lagos_2060 edited by Ayodele Arigbabu
Terra Incognita by Nerine Dorman
Jalada 02: AfroFuture(s) by Jalada Africa

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular books, plus six more books, for a total of ten.

A Killing in the Sun by Dilman Dila
Kabu-Kabu Stories by Nnedi Okorafor
AfroSFv2 edited by Ivor W. Hartmann
AfroSFv3 edited by Ivor W. Hartmann
Omenana to Infinity by Omenana
Imagine Africa 500 edited by Billy Kahora

This bundle is available only for a limited time via https://storybundle.com/fiction. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.epub, .mobi) for all books!

Hartmann says: “For too long was the African experience, imagination, and insight, held captive and until relatively recently only glimpsed through the thick lens of other cultures and their inherent biases. In a big way this is what the new wave of African Speculative Fiction is about: telling our own stories, revealing our vibrant cultures from within, sharing our unique perspectives, and writing ourselves into futures that for so long seemed to spell our doom by virtue of our absence.”

Purchase or gift the Bundle today.