6 best African sci-fi and fantasy books to read this holiday

By Gibson Ncube, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Bibi Burger, Lecturer, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
Carl Death, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Manchester
Deirdre C. Byrne, Professor of English Studies, University of South Africa
Nedine Moonsamy, Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
Peter J. Maurits, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Humanity, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions and epic folklore, African writers are offering fresh new horizons for the world’s science fiction landscape.

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