Topic
Fantasy
African mythology in popular fantasy diverges from lived tradition; this hub examines how fiction differs from actual cultural and spiritual sources.
Yoruba
Children of Blood and Bone: African Fantasy Fiction and Yoruba Belief
Children of Blood and Bone is not a book about Yoruba religion. That is a strange thing to say about the best-known work of African fantasy fiction of the last decade — a novel whose magic clans are…
Orisha
Orisha, Mami Wata, and the Fantasy Novel Review Rule
A reader meets Èṣù on page forty. He is standing at a crossroads, which is where he usually stands, and the book does not stop to explain him.
Serpents
Fantasy Novel Review: Aido Hwedo, Bida, and the African Dragon
There is a moment, maybe forty pages into a certain kind of book, when the dragon stops being a dragon.