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Olivia Kidula
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🇰🇪 SFFH Editor/Publisher.

May I know the tea please? Thank you in advance.

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In its review of Issue V, Afrocritik describes WTBAP as one of the continent’s sharpest engines of imagination, adding that the anthology earns its place not through sentiment but through sheer craft. 🧵

Read full review by @franknjugi.bsky.social: afrocritik.com/will-this-be...

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December 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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By love and mercy, that is a weight off. Thanks to all of you!

Wrap up post and a note from Zukiswa, here:
We did it! Now what?
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December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Reading 2025 speculative fiction? Try this short story, “The Market of Memories” by Azara Tswanya from Issue V of our anthology.

Free to access on our website until December 12.

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Quote graphic from Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology set on a background has a textured reddish tone with decorative speech-mark elements. The text reads: Kamal, the man you loved, who would sometimes freeze mid-task after his 22nd extraction. When this happened, he would stare unblinkingly wherever his eyes were trained, and every time it happened, you would hold your breath. You were always certain when he froze that that was it; that was where all the memories that had been taken from him would make him fold in on himself. Still, he always returned as if nothing had happened,.. Attribution below: The Market of Memories Azara Tswanya Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V The WTBAP logo appears at the top and a red button at the bottom reads: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
December 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Scurrying in excitedly to share that my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, was loved by the wonderful people at @locusmag.bsky.social, alongside @hhpak.bsky.social’s lovely story. So grateful to @acwise.bsky.social for their kind review of these stories✨
2025 Stories We Loved: “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak and “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue
It’s Locus’s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! For your reading pleasure, Locus reviewer A.C. Wise recommends two novelettes, since short fiction often gets overlooked and novelettes especiall…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Slay Queens on Showmax
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ALT: a close up of a woman making a funny face with her eyes closed .
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December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Welcome To Derry is great "shouting at the characters" TV
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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She Hittin that “ITS THE POLICE OPEN UP”
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I refuse to experience this by myself
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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December 1. 2025. World AIDS Day. For those gone and for those who fought so the rest of us could live. We remember you.
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Bizarre choice to not pit when everyone else did but you know what good for Sainz
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love.

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African Translation Project / Rally Weekend - let's close this up! / please see - please share / After eight months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn'...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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This like a Haka for yns.
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.

But there's an even more important reason...
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the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on
graph from Graphite showing 'AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles' — shows ChatGPT launching just before 2023 and then shooting upwards as human articles shoot down
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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British colonialism thrived on narratives like Rudyard Kipling's poem “The White Man’s Burden” which portrayed empire as noble. In this episode, we examine how the Kikuyu and Giriama employed oaths to push back against that lie.

Listen to full episode:

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August 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I am thrilled to debut in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social with my experimental dark cli-fi micro, “Shelter in Place”. 🌪️ Please give my first (eeep!) publication a read, and feel free to share. Lots of love to you all.

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Shelter in Place
by H. Marin I questioned when the seafoam alien sky turned black in the middle of the day and the two suns batted and finally closed their eyes behind the gathering clouds like they were shy but when...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The issue with Showmax original programming is that it's painfully one-note. Despite having a wide array of themes the perspective is unbelievably singular; it's like one person is telling all these stories.
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Welcome to the African SFF Hype feed! To contribute, use #africansff

We promote reading African speculative fiction by African authors whom you can find in this starter pack: go.bsky.app/TVLxXew

Here's a @thestorygraph.com list of 200+ books: app.thestorygraph.com/tags/6577ca4...
African SFFH Authors/Writers
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November 26, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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✨2025 Eligibility Post✨
Short Stories for your consideration.
#booksky #AfricanSFF #AfricanLit🪐📚💙
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“Mushrooms Grow in the Dark” by @formerlykevin.bsky.social in Ojuju Magazine’s Halloween Issue

When ancient stone pillars begin to collapse across the world, they unearth that these monuments may have served a far darker purpose than history admits.

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Promotional graphic for “Mushrooms Grow in the Dark” by Kevin Rigathi, featured in Ojugu Magazine's Halloween Issue and shared by Will This Be A Problem? The background features a warm, brown texture with subtle, mushroom-like patterns. The title text is in teal and red, with the author’s name in green. Below is an illustrated cover showing a glowing, monstrous baby figure with outstretched hands and green eyes, set against a dark, earthy backdrop. Halloween-themed pumpkins decorate the bottom corners. WTBAP’s logo appears at the top, while the website link is displayed at the bottom. Excerpt graphic for “Mushrooms Grow in the Dark” by Kevin Rigathi, published in Ojugu Magazine’s Halloween Issue and shared by Will This Be A Problem? The background features a warm, brown texture with abstract storm-cloud effects and subtle mushroom illustrations. Halloween-themed pumpkins decorate the bottom corners. WTBAP’s logo appears at the top, while Ojuju Magazine’s website link is displayed at the bottom. The excerpt reads: When I was a child, my cousins delighted in scaring me. They were older, with claims to secret knowledge that they, unlike the adults, would share with me. Once, during a visit, they told me something about our neighbour. The man would die, they said, because his compound was rotten with mushrooms. If you saw mushrooms in such numbers in a home, death always followed. Everyone, according to them, knew this. They were playing with me, of course. Teasing in the time-honoured tradition of older cousins. Yet, our neighbour died the following week when they were gone and could not take back their words, and the story calcified into a kind of truth in my young mind. In the face of this creature, my mind dug up this old story and named the thing Obuoba. Mushroom. Because of its skin. Because it broke things down and absorbed them. Because it had been growing all this time, in the dark. Because it was a harbinger of death.
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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CRIMINALMENTE
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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CAROL!!! ENOUGH
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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twitter this last week
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The Action 13 -- More Bread To The People [Nigeria, Funk] (1973)
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The Action 13 -- More Bread To The People [Nigeria, Funk] (1973)
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November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM