The cover of Where Rivers Go To Die, with a boarder design inspired by African fractals, and the main image is a metallic feather, perhaps from a robot bird of some sort.

Where Rivers Go To Die

These short stories are set in a futuristic Africa, and lean towards the darker side of stories. A policeman haunted by the spirit of his dead wife, while another, a female detective, hunts for monsters in the streets of a sleepy town; a teenager gets a super weapon to save his brother, while a storyteller confronts ghosts of her past when one of her characters comes to life.

The cover of an ebook. It has a pale blue background, imitative of night, and there's an image of a man with shield and spear walking towards a tree in the distance, which is a little faded into the background. He leaves behind bloody footprints.

Chaka

This short novel is a folk history of Shaka Zulu, documenting what ordinary folk were saying on the rise and fall of the legend, about a hundred years after his reign. It is a dark fantasy story.

The cover of a scifi book, with a blue background, and the main image is a fish-octopus-like creature with a human face emerging from the hatch of what looks like a spherical vehicle. The title is A Killing in the Sun, on top of the page, and the author is Dilman Dila, at the bottom of the page. There are two blurbs and praises for the book. At the top is "well worth reading" Strange Horizons, and the one at the bottom says "So loving these sci-fi short stories... each one is memorable" Zukiswa Wanner.

A Killing in the Sun

These short stories are set in a futuristic Africa, and feature refugee aliens from outer space, a rebellious child eager to inherit their father’s reputation as an assassin, an evil scientist stalking a village, and a greedy corporation creating an apocalypses. There are tales of reincarnation and of the walking dead, and alternative worlds whose themes any reader will identify with.

the cover of an ebook, has a spider-like robot on the cover, harvesting a flower, with red text around it. The blossoming of the big tree, by Dilman Dila

The Blossoming of the Big Tree

A solarpunk novella about a grandmother who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades. Available in ebook, audiobook, and print.