WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Submissions may engage with, but are not limited to, the following key themes: 

• Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, and Technological Ethics: How does African speculative fiction imagine futures shaped by AI, biotechnology, and cybernetics? What happens when technology isn’t neutral, but tied to power, identity and resistance? What kinds of futures emerge when these stories are told from the African perspective? 

• Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Future: What if the future isn’t shaped by the past, but built from it? How can ancestral wisdom shape our understanding of technology today? How might indigenous approaches to knowledge and ethics reframe global discussions on automation, biotechnology, and digital consciousness?

• Climate Futures, Solarpunk, and Survival: How do African writers imagine life in a changing climate? What does survival, adaptation and resistance look like in these futures? 

• The Body, Enhancement, and Identity: As technologies like genetic editing or neural implants become more real, how do they change what it means to be human? How might African stories explore questions of identity, autonomy and transformation? 

Your work doesn’t have to fit neatly into any of these categories. These questions are simply prompts to help you get started. Surprise us! We’re interested in work that takes risks, plays with form and imagines something new.