The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has introduced the record of finalists for this yr’s version of the Nommo Awards.
The announcement was made in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Sunday, seventeenth August, 2025.
The award classes and the accompanying authors within the respective shortlists embody the next:
2025 Ilube Award For Finest Novel Finalists
The Smoke That Thunders – Erhu Kome (Norton Younger Readers, 2024)
The Unbelievable Desires of Garba Dakaskus – Umar Abubakar Sidi (Masobe Books, 2024)
Womb Metropolis – Tlotlo Tsamaase (Kensington, 2024)
2025 Novella Finallists
The Yr of Return – Ivana Akotowaa Ofori (Android Press, 2024)
Within the Shadow of the Fall – Tobi Ogundiran (Titan Books, 2024)
The Observe, the Horizon, and the Chain – Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom, 2024)
Misplaced Ark Dreaming – Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)
2025 Graphic Novel Finalists
Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods – Dotun Akande and Murewa Ayodele (Oni Press, 2025)
Celestial Eyes – John Uche and Francis (The Machine Publishing, 2024)
You Have Ten Years – Murewa Ayodele, Mamode Ogbewele, Dotun Akande, and Samuel Iwunze (Collectible Comics NG, 2024)
2025 Quick Story Finalists
Our bodies of Sand and Blood – Plangdi Neple (Forged of Wonders, 2024)
From Throughout Time – Chisom Umeh (Clarkesworld, 2024)
The Future Ancients – Mwenya Chikwa (WTBAP, 2024)
Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine – Damilola Oyedotun (Lightspeed, 2024)
The Nommo Awards recognise works of speculative fiction by Africans. This refers to science fiction, fantasy, tales of magic and conventional perception, various histories, horror, and different genres that may not slot in wherever else. Powered by the ASFS, the Awards have been held yearly since 2017, apart from 2023.
ASFS is a membership organisation of African writers, editors, comedian and graphic artists, and filmmakers within the fields of speculative fiction. Within the context of the organisation, “speculative fiction” contains Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the broadest doable definition of speculative/fantastical fiction, together with horror, slipstream, interstitial, tales based mostly on conventional beliefs, alternate historical past, and so forth.
Winners of the 2025 Nommo Awards can be introduced on the 2025 Ake Pageant in Lagos, Nigeria, scheduled to happen from twentieth to twenty second November.