Omenana Magazine is open for submissions for our special themed edition, focusing on the Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
The Niger Delta has for long been the goose that lays the golden egg for Nigeria as the home of the vast majority of the country’s oil wealth. However, the natives of the region have also complained that the wealth generated from the oil isn’t being used to uplift the locals. The region is also plagued by oil spills and their attendant environmental devastation. All these issues have also led to militancy that saw restive youths from the region arm themselves and take to the creeks and swamps from where they attacked oil operations in the region and clashed with Nigerian security forces.
Often, the question is asked: “what would happen when the oil dries up?”
A good example of a Niger delta focused science fiction story is Nnedi Okarafor’s “Spider the Artist” published in Lightspeed Magazine.
Send us Stories in any of science fiction’s many forms — cyberpunk, climate fiction, African futurism, solarpunk, biopunk, eco-scifi, political sci-fi, alternate history, time travel, space exploration, AI and robotics — so long as they meaningfully engage with the region.
Stories must be original, previously unpublished and between 1,500 to 5,000 words.
Submissions must follow the guidelines stipulated here.
Deadline for submission is 20 August 2025.
