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Nigerian God-Punk - a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.
Since the Orisha …
The Nigerian Army Shopping Arena was one of the most guarded shopping complexes of Oshodi in its heyday.
As someone who's unfamiliar with Nigeria and Lagos, there's a lot for me to unpack in this sentence
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
The Tainted Cup is very much a fantasy Holmes novel, where a labyrinthine mystery is being solved by an almost supernaturally skilled investigator and their lovable but hapless assistant, through whose viewpoint the story is being presented.
The setting is delightfully weird, much more like Divine Cities than Founders, with elements of existential/apocalyptic threat and imperialism.
I'm looking forward to more in this universe.
Nigerian God-Punk - a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.
Since the Orisha …
This is going to be a bad job.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
And when the Empire is weak, it is often because a powerful few have denied us the abundance of our people.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
What a tool cynicism is to the corrupt, claiming the whole of the creation is broken and fraudulent, and thus we are all excused to indulge in whatever sins we wish—for what’s a little more unfairness, in this unfair world?
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
“I’m as civil as a magistrate,” she said.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
Have you felt any curious flickering sensations when you defecate, perhaps?
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
So instead of committing robbery, I made tea.
A "why not both‽" moment
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
That seems a good way to invite more hell into my life, when I already have hell aplenty.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
That's the problem with figuring shit out—eventually you run into someone who’d prefer all their shit remained thoroughly unfigured.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
“They don’t like to put numbers to it,” she said. “Numbers would make everyone worry.”
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
I said nothing. For there is nothing worth saying when you are being forced into a pit of horrors.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder …
The walls of the estate emerged from the morning fog before me, long and dark and rounded like the skin of some beached sea creature.
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
Content warning big plot spoilers
It's always telling when people make bad-faith arguments and then the mask comes off.
Almost a decade ago, I was moderating an irc channel when one of the regular users dropped a racist dogwhistle into the channel. I publicly cautioned him, and he responded with a bunch of whataboutery and doubled down. So I kicked him.
Within seconds, he was back in the channel spewing screens and screens worth of overtly white supremacist rhetoric, including the phrase "mud people" and lots more along those lines. Of course I banned him permanently, but the next day one of the other mods (who hadn't been present) messaged me saying that the user had messaged them, mask back in place, complaining that I had unfairly banned him over a misunderstanding etc.
Kofi's post-rejection change in attitude immediately reminded me of this exchange, and how so often the smallest pushback causes the mask to slip aside and reveal what's truly underneath.
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of …
A fantasy thriller in a unique setting with nuanced takes on colonialism, gender, and poverty.
I'll be looking forward to upcoming books in this universe or by Naseem Jamnia
