2021 Nommo Awards Announced
The winners of the 2021 Nommo Awards have been announced at DisCon3, this years WorldCon.
The winner of the 2021 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Novel was THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI by Akwaeke Emezi. Best Comic or Graphic Novel was won by Akosua Hanson (writer) and AnimaxFYB Studios (illustration) for MOONGIRLS from Drama Queens Collective in Ghana....
MoonGirls nominated for 2021 Nommo Award
The long list is alphabetical order by authors’ names. All works are speculative fiction, published between January 1, 2019 – December 31 2020, and are thought to be by Africans as defined by the ASFS and Nommo Awards Guidelines.
The nominees will be asked to confirm their eligibility and eligibility of their works in writing. Nominees will also be asked to make...
The MoonGirls Graphic Novel – Celebrating Herstories in a World That Seeks to Erase Them
In the year 2019 of the New World Order of the Council of the Seti, the current Moongirls are four African Supersheroes who fight a physical and philosophical war. Their mission: to restore Truth, Propriety, Order, Balance, Justice, and Harmony. Ma’at.
Little girls need to hear stories of their greatness and humanity in a patriarchal world that tells them...
Stay Put, and Chill: Quarantine for the culture
Mutual aid, in the era of collaborative care and social distancing, transmutes the boundaries of proximity and presents love based action in real spacetime. For those of us who’ve replaced face-to-face time with increased screen time, the privilege of interconnectedness is a virtual life line for fellowship and community.
Though the fifth dimensional privilege that is...
Moongirls: A graphic intervention
A dive into the world of four “African Supersheroes” via a conversation between People’s Stories project contributor, Moshood, and Moongirls speculative fiction series founder, Nana Akosua Hanson.
Afrofuturism in the Age of Black Panther
The term “Afrofuturism” was coined by critic Mark Dery in 1993 to describe the use in African American culture of science fiction tropes to explore the condition of black people in the world—and to imagine the destinies they could shape for themselves.