Moustapha Mbacké Diop

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🇸🇳 || Medical Doctor || SFF/H Writer || FR/ENG/WO || Words in Omenana, ITAL, Fractured Lit, Haven Spec. The Year's Best African Spec Fic (2021). Africa Risen. Blackened Roots. F&SF. The Dark.|| he/him

Cover of Issue 120 of The Dark magazine featuring a woman standing in a forest with a raven in flight in a corner.
Poster of Dreamworks’ Curses! featuring the main characters (the Vanderhouven family: Alex and Sky parents of Horus and Pandora; and the keepers of the Restricted Wing: an animated wooden Celtic statue named Stanley and a bodyless pirate skull with an eyepatch and braided bear named Larry). They’re standing again a green background under a full moon, staring in awe at a hand-shaped briar vine with thorns.
Poster sur le panel : La Favrique du Fantastique avec les intervenants : Dounia Charaf, Anouk Arnal, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Catherine Dufour, Pascal Malosse, et Moussa Sako.
First paragraph of The Ndayaan Sea by Moustapha Mbacké Diop “I didn’t know for how long I had been roaming the Ndayaan Sea. Its water, white as the breastmilk spewing from a newborn’s lips, seemed to sweep me toward madness. The blood didn’t circulate into my vessels, my raw hand. Unknown things flickered in and out of the corners of my eyes, taunting me with silence. Surely, they were outraged, mocked my intrepidity. How could a powerless witch dare to venture into the Ndayaan Sea? (…)”
Book cover of The Fox Wife by Yangze Choo, depicting a woman with Chinese attire in red, with a hat on her back walking through a snowy forest. She’s alongside a body of water where the reflection of a white fox is juxtaposed to her.
Book cover of Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde, with an abstract face among flowers of different colors and shapes over a black background.
Cover of The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi, with the main character standing on what looks like a shadowy stage, with angel wings tucked under her arm.
The words “get to know my reading taste for every like I will post one book I love” over a white background.