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Dominion
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora | Nuzo Onoh, Michael Boatman, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Marian Denise Moore, Dare Segun Falowo, Rafeeat Aliyu, Odida Nyabundi, Mame Bougouma Diene, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
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Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman's pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company's latest projectthe monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky. A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased fatherliterally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.
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galueth28
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora | Nuzo Onoh, Michael Boatman, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Marian Denise Moore, Dare Segun Falowo, Rafeeat Aliyu, Odida Nyabundi, Mame Bougouma Diene, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
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This short story is part of the Dominio anthology and my favourite so far. I'm not much of a horror fan, but I loved the atmosphere and Desee's journey, even if it was a painful one.

I'm counting this as my entry for Nigeria for #readingafrica2022

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Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora | Nuzo Onoh, Michael Boatman, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Marian Denise Moore, Dare Segun Falowo, Rafeeat Aliyu, Odida Nyabundi, Mame Bougouma Diene, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
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Mehso-so

**Review only of Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon
novella by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Nebula finalist**

This post-apocalyptic work of Africanfuturism features a small community of survivors with strange powers but plagued by population decrease and reliant on traditional gender hierarchy. I found the “last woman”/rape aspects troubling to say the least—it felt rushed, a little titillating, unfinished, and written from a man‘s perspective.