mastodon 4.7.3We are a small press based in Uganda, founded in 2026 by @dilmandila@mograph.social We publish speculative fiction stories, particularly science fiction, fantasy, horror, and solarpunk. We also love folk tales and non-fiction works about the arts and cultures of African people, and you will find these on our sites.
Our first post should be an #introduction so here we go. We are a small press based in Uganda/East Africa, and we are passionate about speculative fiction. We publish #SciFi #fantasy #horror #solarpunk #afrofuturism and #africanfuturism books, and we also love #folklore so you should expect to see regular posts about African folk lore. This will be our only social media presence.
Here is our website.
https://www.ododopress.com/
Cover reveal! We've edited this book for modern readers. It's an important documentation of African cultures. The original, written 100yrs ago by a racist anthropologist, had a lot of problematic texts, misinformation, and hallucinations of colonialists. We had to weed all that out, and it was a hectic job that took so much longer that planned. Now we are done, the cover is here, and now we hope to release it in a few weeks. To get updates https://www.ododopress.com/newsletter/
Cover Reveal! Here is our next book, which opens for pre-orders soon, and it is a reprint of what some scholars say is a landmark publication, the first single-author collection of speculative stories from an African author (based on the continent and in contemporary times, we believe). First published in 2014, it went out of print when the original publisher folded. We are proud to bring it back to life!
https://www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/
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This is a periodic reminder that our first novella is on pre-order, and it's the story of a 70yr old autistic woman who would rather grow her beans in peace, but a superpower is threatening her decentralized country and she has to coordinate their defense, though they don't have an army, or even weapons.
You can check out a sample chapter on our website, or on major stores.
https://ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
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In Malawi a being called Chiruwi is believed to haunt lonely places in the forest, carrying an axe. It has one eye, one arm, one leg, the other half of its body being made of wax. It challenges any person it meets to wrestle with it; if the person can overcome it then it offers to show them “many medicines” if they will let it go, and tells them the properties of the various trees and herbs. But if the person is thrown “they return no more to their village; they die.”
https://www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
Whew. Finally we set up the email properly, so our ebooks and newsletters shouldn't be dropped automatically into spam. I think some people had previously tried to sign up for the newsletter, but we had not figured out smtp so now everything should work fine.
Hare returns in another tale from the Nandi, and still their deeds are mischievous and very dark, but there seems to be a morale to the stories: never trust a stranger with your child.
Enjoy this and other folk tales from Africa via #OdodoStories
https://www.ododopress.com/african-folk-tales/the-baby-sitter/
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