The African Science Fiction Society has put out a call for members to submit nominations for the 2024 Nommo Awards by April 30. This ends a one-year break while ASFS suspended the award to restructure the organization. To make up for not presenting awards last year, the 2024 awards will accept nominations for works published in 2022 and 2023.

The Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans are presented by the African Speculative Fiction Society, an organization of professional and semiprofessional African writers, editors, publishers, graphic artists and film makers. The group was founded in 2016, and the awards were given for the first time in 2017.

For the first three years the Nommo Awards ceremonies were held at the Aké Arts & Book Festival in Nigeria. The 2020 ceremony – which had already been taken online due to the pandemic – was postponed out of respect for the people injured in protests then occurring in Lagos and other Nigerian cities. After a delay the virtual ceremony went ahead. The next two ceremonies moved to North American venues, with the 2021 awards given at the World Science Fiction Convention, DisCon III, in Washington, D.C. and the 2022 awards at Chicon 8 in Chicago. Since the Chicon 8 ceremony there had been no Nommo Awards activity.

The 2024 awards will have four categories:

1. Novel: Stories of 40,000 words or longer  
2. Novella: Stories of between 17,500 and 40,000 words
3. Short Story: Stories of between 1 and 17,500 words
4. Graphic Novel: Stories that consist of both images and words of any length.

Only works published between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023 are eligible. 

After the ballot is compiled, ASFS members will have from May 15 through June 30 to vote on the winners.