Five Fast-Paced African Urban Fantasy Books

Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. Author of the critically acclaimed Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, which was named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post. He's hopped around the planet quite a bit but right now, lives in Australia. He's been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, the Caine Prize, and has won the Sidewise award for alternate history. His work has been translated into seven languages. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Clarkesworld, and is collected in the books Incomplete Solutions (2019, Luna Press) and Convergence Problems (2024, DAW Books).