Wole Talabi

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day in the US and Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾

Apologies to my Lisan Al-Gaib but opera is definitely still alive. Went to see La Traviata yesterday and while story was too dated for my sensibilities, the music and performances were great. There was also quite a decent turnout.

My novella DESCENT is a BSFA and Nebula Award finalist. And its in spectacular company too. I'm mostly just surprised at how far this @sauutiverse story has come. Thank you all for reading and supporting it. 🚀📖🌍

Well, when it rains it pours ehh? The japanese translation of my story "Blowout" was nominated for the Seiun award! file770.com/2026-seiun-awa… The story first appeared in @Analog_SF and is in my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS from @dawbooks

Nebula Awards 2026 Finalists Announced #LiteraryAwards #FIction #SpeculativeFiction writingafrica.com/nebula-awards-…

🚨Sweepstakes alert 🚨We’re giving four lucky winners a paperback copy of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon over on our Instagram @dawbooks Ends 3/21/26 at 11:59 PM ET. US Only.

Congratulations to our very own @WTalabi for making the Nebula finals for his Sauútiverse novella, Descent! 💫🔥❤️

@Nnedi This is awesome. I'm sure it will be an excellent lecture and I hope I get the chance to discuss this topic with you one day - I've been pitching a mystical/mundane overlap panel to a few cons.

📢 I’ll be at Yale University giving a 3-lecture series on the origin, concept, and practice of Africanjujuism. I’ll discuss masquerades (mmụọ), Nsibidi, the role being Naijamerican played, and the overlap of the mystical and mundane.

We begin the month of March with Wole Talabi’s Convergence Problems. After such an electrifying first experience with his novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, we expect nothing short of brilliance. Happy New Month, everyone!

Sauúti Terrors, in all its auditory glory, has been released as an audiobook, available (open for pre-orders) 17 March on Libra fm, with narrators Christel Mutombo and Kofi Boakye. 🔊💫 libro.fm/audiobooks/979… @EugenBacon @spembleton @ALA_speculative

@Xan_Writer Ha! Not writing it but I'd read or watch the hell out of it if someone else did

@WTalabi So when you writing this book???

A Law And Order reboot where Jack McCoy dies in court & each episode finds himself reincarnated in the past as an advocate who must plead the case of an accused person before a variety of historical courts/councils- Rome, Oyo Empire, Aztec Tenochtitlan, Han China, Mesopotamia...

@tmdoyle2 Yep. The fish out of water element would make it more entertaining

@WTalabi Excellent. He could fail badly in each place initially, then realize he had to talk to or watch the local experts to figure out how to do it right (he could watch Cicero in Rome). Things would probably get even more political than he was used to very quickly.

@tmdoyle2 Yep. That's what will make the show more interesting. Its also why I have him on the defense when he was a prosecutor originally. Its for the drama!

@WTalabi Ha, you're setting him up to have a tough go of it! (For those unfamiliar) justice in most(?) instances across time and cultures didn't overlap much w/ forensic truth as we'd understand it. E.g., in Rome, character was a fixed thing--the bad were always bad from childhood on.

Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List – They Need Your Votes! brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fiftee…

Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List – They Need Your Votes! brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fiftee… via @brittlepaper

We are really proud of @WTalabi’s Sauúti novella “Descent” making the BSFA shortlist. 🔥💫🥳 Read it!

Very cool to see that my @sauutiverse novella DESCENT is a finalist for the BSFA Awards! Many thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine for publishing, to the voters & congratulations to all my fellow finalists whom I'm pleasantly intimidated to be counted among! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-sh…

Fifteen African authors made the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List! @Nnedi Okorafor, Wole @WTalabi, @TochiTrueStory, @MHAyinde, and more represent across science fiction, fantasy, novellas, and anthologies. Vote for your favorites by April 15! ✨brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fiftee…

It's that time! Vote in the annual Locus Awards Poll & Survey to determine the winners of the 2026 awards (tickets available now)! You can vote at poll.voting.locusmag.com or via the link in our bio!