Fundraiser for Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

Amazon recently shut down the publishing account of Nigerian author and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki for supposed violations of their terms and conditions. Amazon refused to say what exactly the violations were and also insisted they would keep the over $2,000 in royalties from the sales of Ekpeki’s books, including The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology.

 

The money lost through this meant Ekpeki was unable to pay a number of authors for publishing their work, and was also out his costs for both this anthology and the upcoming Bridging Worlds non-fiction anthology, which could/will no longer be released through Amazon..

 

Once funding is achieved, Ekpeki will release both the Kindle edition of the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology and the entire Bridging Worlds anthology for free download. The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction is the first ever year's best anthology focusing on African speculative fiction and contains works from 29 Black and African writers of speculative fiction from both Africa and the diaspora.