Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
Housewarming for a Lion Goddess
Africa Risen, 2022
From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world.
Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.
Housewarming for a Lion Goddess by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga is featured in Africa Risen
About the Author
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga’s name is short for ‘moonlight’ in Kinyarwanda. Her work has been published in Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, demos journal, Stringybark Stories, super / natural: art and fiction for the future, Selene Quarterly Magazine, Apparition Lit, Djed Press, Underground Writers, and Jalada x DWF: Diaspora, among others.
