2020 NOMMO Awards Winners Announced by the ASFS

The 2020 NOMMO Awards winners have been announced by the ASFS (African Speculative Fiction Society), an organization of African writers, artists, editors, and publishers in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres.

The NOMMO Awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the broadest possible definition of speculative/fantastical fiction including horror, slipstream, interstitial, stories based on traditional beliefs, alternate history etc. An inclusive rather than exclusive term designed to include most especially any distinctively African forms that may develop."

The awards take their name from Dogon cosmology, and the ancestral spirits / deities who take a variety of forms, including appearing on land as fish, walking on their tails.

 

The awards were announced in an online ceremony during the Aké Arts & Book Festival.

Best Novel (The Ilube Award)

• 'David Mogo, Godhunter', Suyi Davies Okungbowa  (Abaddon)

Best Novella

• 'Incompleteness Theories' (from single-author anthology 'Incomplete Solutions'), Wole Talabi (Luna Press)

Best Short Story

• 'Tiny Bravery', Ada Nnadi (Omenana)
• 'Sin Eater', Chikodili Emelumadu (Omenana)

Best Graphic Novel

• 'Danfo' by Morakinyo Araoye and Steven Akinyemi (authors), & Ogim Ekpezu (artist) (TAG Comics)