AFRICA RISEN Story Featured on LeVar Burton Reads Podcast

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Fan favorite podcast LeVar Burton Reads has featured a special reading of “The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library,” and we can’t get enough!

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LeVar Burton invites listeners to take a break from their daily lives and dive into great stories, featuring the best of the best authors, which now include AFRICA RISEN‘s very own Tobi Ogundiran. AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction is comprised of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Want to take a listen? Check out the episode on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.


“[A] magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review

“These stories enchant, surprise, and provoke and are a significant addition to the canon of modern speculative fiction.”–Booklist, starred review

AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction Edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight; 9781250833006; available now

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