2022 Nommo Awards Winners
The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has announced the 2022 Nommo Awards winners at Chicon 8. The awards are given to works “by Africans as defined by the ASFS and Nommo Awards Guidelines,” and were presented in a ceremony hosted by Sheree Renée Thomas.
Best Novel
- WINNER: The Library of the Dead, T.L Huchu (Tor)
- The Madhouse, TJ Benson (Penguin South Africa)
- The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
- Son of the Storm, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- They Made Us Blood and Fury, Cheryl S. Ntumy (Self published)
- Far from the Light of Heaven, Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Best Novella
- WINNER: Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
- The Future God of Love, Dilman Dila (Luna)
- “An Exploration of Nicole Otieno’s Early Filmography (1232-1246)”, Kola Heyward-Rotimi (Strange Horizons 9/13/21)
- Not Seeing is a Flower, Erhu Kome (Eraserhead)
- “The Abomination”, Nuzo Onoh (F&SF 9-10/21)
Best Short Story
- WINNER: “Masquerade Season“, ‘Pemi Aguda (Tor.com 3/24/21)
- “O2 Arena”, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge 11/21)
- “Shelter”, Mbozie Haimbre (Disruption)
- “And This Is How to Stay Alive”, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Fantasy 11/20)
- “The Many Lives of an Abiku”, Tobi Ogundiran (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/30/20)
- “The Brother”, Makena Onjerika (Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World)
- “An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
- “Dreamports”, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Apex 12/21)
Best Graphic Novel
- WINNER: Iyanu: Child of Wonder, volume 2, Roye Okupe and Godwin Akpan (Dark Horse)
- The Ijournal, Awele Emili
For more, see the ASFS website.
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