Out Of Africa: Cassava Republic Press Invites Submissions For Its “Echoes Of The Earth” Anthology
African & Diaspora Voices: Contribute to Climate Justice Anthology … Nigerian publisher Cassava Republic Press is calling on Black writers, activists, policy makers, thinkers and creatives from around the world to contribute to a transformative anthology that seeks to re-centre African and Afro-Diasporic perspectives on ecology, climate justice and conservation. This collection, edited by publishing director […]
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African & Diaspora Voices: Contribute to Climate Justice Anthology …
Nigerian publisher Cassava Republic Press is calling on Black writers, activists, policy makers, thinkers and creatives from around the world to contribute to a transformative anthology that seeks to re-centre African and Afro-Diasporic perspectives on ecology, climate justice and conservation.
This collection, edited by publishing director Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, will bring together in a single volume African and Afro-Diasporic perspectives on climate, environmental repair, and ecological thought. It aims to reframe global ecological discourse by foregrounding Black people’s relationships with land, water, air, memory, and technology; relationships that have long been shaped by survival, resistance, and renewal. Contributions should explore what a genuinely global, just, and sustainable ecological vision could look like when it is rooted in critical and multidisciplinary Black worlds and wisdoms.
Essays should focus on the following themes:
- Water and the Sacred Flow of Struggle: Essays exploring water in all forms – in scarcity and abundance. How do hydropolitics and the resulting infrastructure affect the relationship between humans and this vital resource? What are the spiritual and political ecologies of rivers, oceans and rain?
- Land, Loss and Renewal: From desertification and the spirit of the Sahel to the lushness of the Amazon. The relationship between humans and land is both fragile and sacred. What relationship do we have with the soil that feed us? How are land dispossession, war and environmental refugees changing our relationship with land?
- Extraction, Waste and Neo-colonial Circuits: With the rise of fast fashion and digital waste, Africa is both a site of extraction and of dumping. What is the price of the critical minerals that its people take for granted every day? And how do colonial relationships play out in the realm of climate justice?
- Ritual, Art and the Metaphysical: How rituals, music, art, dreams, and the metaphysical shape our ecological consciousness. How do we use art to reimagine land and loss, and to work through eco-anxiety and the psychic toll of collapse?
- Techno-Ecologies and the Digital Planet: In what is now undoubtedly the age of AI, what are the climate costs of the Cloud? What does Black Environmental consciousness look like in the age of surveillance and AI? What are the climate costs of the cloud? Can we trust the future of the planet to algorithms?
- Policy, Power and Planetary Futures: How are Black spaces governed ecologically, and what part do green finance and climate capital play in this? What does a robust and post-colonial climate infrastructure look like – and what threatens this vision? Are reparations and redistribution needed to bring about climate justice?
Submissions are welcomed from writers of all backgrounds who engage with climate, land, and ecology through fresh and compelling perspectives. Editors will be looking out for thoughtful and rigorously researched essays, polemics, testimonies, and creative non-fiction.
Submissions should be between 3,500 – 7,000 words. Essays should be double spaced in Word format, double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font. All essays should be accompanied by a pitch letter, which should include a brief abstract.
All submissions must be original, previously unpublished work. Visual essays are also eligible. A modest honorarium will be offered to all contributors.
Deadline for entries is 4th January 2026. Essays should be sent in via Submittable.
