Worldcon is the Science Fiction Convention held annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). It has been held each year since 1939 (except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II). The members of each

Worldcon are the members of WSFS, and vote both to select the site of the Worldcon two years later, and to select the winners of the annual Hugo Awards, which are presented at each convention. https://www.worldcon.org

Worldcons offer not less than five days of activities including, Hugo Awards ceremony, WSFS Business Meeting, Site selection, many panels and program items including author interviews, discussions of topics of interest, and

workshops, a dealer’s Room, Art Show, the Masquerade (costume party). Since every Worldcon is held in a different part of the world, each one offers different things.

Worldcon is a rotating global convention that visits a new city every year since 1939. As of 2026, 84 Worldcons will have been hosted on different continents namely;- Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North America but none in

Africa.

Africa has a rich storytelling heritage and a wealth of folktales that have been passed down for generations. The African continent is home to a tradition of creation myths that on closer inspection bear a striking resemblance to

speculative science fiction. The Dogon people of Mali believe they are the descendants of an extra-terrestrial race from the Sirius B star system, and the Zulu in South Africa trace their name and origin story to somewhere just

beyond the heavens. In Uganda the Buganda kingdom that has continuity since the 14th century traces its origins from a supernatural being “Kintu” who came from another world. Some of such stories have informed great fiction

works that have won major honors in the science fiction genre. Writers who connect with African culture in their works have had no limits to fresh new stories, like Nnedi Okorafor and Tade Thompson have, between them, won

the field’s highest honors, including the Hugo.

However many speculative fiction works, talents, and stories by Africans living in Africa still struggle to find a place on global platforms for fans and consumers to admire because of a number of barriers including but not limited

to proximity of host nations due to amorphous conditions for creatives to acquire travel licensees (Visas), technological and economical differences, this leaves a lot of untapped talent and virgin stories on the continent that would

be of great value to the science fiction and fantasy industry. This too has limited diversity and inclusion in the Worldcon community and Scifi creative space. Africa is not only hub for talent and stories that can inform production

of great works of science fiction and fantasy, but also commands a strong fan base for the genre. This has been proved by the recent explosion of the global media industries and streamers inking collaboration deals with African

sci-fi producers in a bid to grow their markets and have succeeded.

We intend to host the Worldcon in a city accessible to everyone, free from community and institutionalized discrimination making it available to all creatives and fans enabling them to connect with companions from the rest of

the world. This will help create more diverse and relevant collaborations which will steer the industry onto more sustainable and desirable trajectories. This is very possible, Ray Bradbury when actively immersed in the blossoming

community of fans, he fell in with Forrest J Ackerman and the Los Angeles Science Fiction League (LASFL) in October 1937 at the age of 17 Just four months later, his first published science fiction story appeared in the January

1938 issue of the club’s organ and went on to shape the genre for the next several decades.