Welcome to episode 22 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. In this episode, Gary and Jonathan talk to Oghenechovwe Ekpeki, author of the Otherwise Award-winning and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, British SF Award, and Nebula Award-nominated novella "Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon", editor of The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and co-editor with Zelda K. Knight of the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Oghenechovwe joins us from Lagos, Nigeria to discuss growing up reading speculative fiction in Nigeria, his hopes for The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction series, the challenges facing writers from Africa to get a chance to be a part of the international science fiction community, his upcoming anthology African Risen for Tordotcom (co-edited with Sheree Renee Thomas and Zelda K. Knight), and much more.
While there are, later in the podcast, a few moments where static affected our Skype connection, we hope you'll bear with the episode. As always, we'd like to thank Oghenechovwe for taking the time to talk to us, and hope that you enjoy the episode.
Available for order now:
Episode 302: The State of Short Fiction
Episode 301: On Literary fiction and genre, the moon and more
Episode 300: Kij Johnson Exploring Old Worlds
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
REPOST: Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
Episode 298: Lisa Yaszek, Kathleen Ann Goonan and Sisters of Tomorrow
Episode 297: Politics and science fiction
Episode 296: A Return to Normal Programming
Episode 295a: Ellen Klages reads from Passing Strange
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
Episode 294: Just a Song Before We Go (on hiatus)
Episode 293: James Bradley, Ian Mond and Coode Street's Year in Review
Episode 292: Short fiction, defining fantasy and more
Episode 291: Radio Free America
Episode 290: David Levine and Fran Wilde
Episode 289: Baseball, Bob and more
Episode 288: Kai Ashante Wilson and A Taste of Honey
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