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'Pemi Aguda
Pemi Aguda is an author known for writing African speculative fiction. Their stories are included in anthologies such as The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021.
One Leg on Earth
In Lagos, a young woman named Yosoye Bakare navigates an unexpected pregnancy while working for a firm developing Omi City — a controversial luxury enclave built on reclaimed land. As she grapples with her uncertain future, the city is gripped by a terrifying pattern: expectant mothers are walking into open water and drowning in what seems to be a wave of suicides. Caught between corporate cover-ups, haunting visions of the dead women, and an unsettling figure at work who calls these deaths acts of self-possession rather than tragedy, Yosoye must confront whether her own fate is tied to the waters beneath the city's new construction.