From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J. Davis

“Old Solomon’s Eyes” by Cheryl Ntumy in FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue #24, October 2022.“Memories of the Old Sun” by Eugen Bacon in Chasing Whispers, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2022.“March Magic” by WC Dunlap in Africa Risen, Tor.com, November 2022.“Make a Memory with Me” by Xan van Rooyen in Galaxy’s Edge, September 2022.“Like Stars Daring To Shine” by Somto Ihezue in Fireside Magazine, issue 103, July 2022.“It Calls to You” by Jamal Hodge in Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters, And other Phenomena, June 2022.“District to Cervix: The Time Before We Were Born” by Tlotlo Tsamaase in Prisms anthology, PS Publishing, March 2021.“Destiny Delayed” by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May/June 2022.“Deep in the Gardener’s Barrow” by Tobi Ogundiran in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, November 2021.

“Barefoot and Midnight” by Sheree Renée Thomas in Apex Mag, March 2021.

“An Arc of Electric Skin” by Wole Talabi in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2021.

Davis in Muscadine Wine, MV Media, Aug 2022

“A Sunken Memory” by Donovan Hall in Cyberfunk! Anthology, February 2021.

“A Soul of Small Places” by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo in Africa Risen, Tor.com, November 2022.

“A Pall of Moondust” by Nick Wood in Omenana, April 2021.

“When She Speaks” by Ugochi Agoawike in Augur Magazine, November 2021.

“How We Are” by Chikodili Emelumadu in The Horror Anthology, Titan Books, Sept 2022.

“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” by Nalo Hopkinson in Fantasy & SF, Nov/Dec 2021.

The editors received nearly 100 submissions, totaling over 400,000 words. This year’s volume also pays special attention to black speculative poetry and the power of the word.

This anthology series aims to draw attention to the works of Africans and people of African descent, to address visibility and other marginalizing barriers that exist for writers from Africa and the diaspora on the global stage. The second installment of the World Fantasy Award-winning Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology series, published by a collaboration of Caezik Books of Arc Manor and OD Ekpeki Presents, an imprint of Jembefola Press, will be released August 1, 2023, and can be preordered here. It will contain poetry, and cover works from both the 20 years. This year’s volume is guest edited by two strong voices in the Black speculative fiction space, Eugen Bacon and Milton Davis. The selections have been announced T he Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 anthology.

From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J. Davis