Alkebulan (Ashes of War) By Wahhaj Adetide

When the sky splits open and chrome leviathans descend, the ancient tribes of Alkebulan face the return of an old terror: the Aurachrome Dominion, pale-skinned invaders descended from the first European conquerors who once ravaged the continent. Armed with advanced spirit-machine technology and led by the ruthless Imperator Cassian Vortigonus, the Dominion seeks to "restore" its ancestral tyranny and reclaim Alkebulan as its rightful empire.

Caught between worlds, Prince Hemsef K'Tharu-heir to a kingdom that blends spirit and technology-must unite three rival tribes whose philosophies could not be more different.
• The Sembari, guardians of nature who reject all machines.
• The K'Tharu, who balance root and circuit as one.
• The N'Doro, brilliant technologists blinded by ambition, wealth, and the promises of Aurachrome power.

After his father is transformed into a chrome-grafted puppet king and his mother is taken hostage, Hemsef flees with Aza'Leen-his fierce Sembari companion-and a handful of loyal survivors. In the haunted Red Forests, where the land still remembers the screams of the first colonization, Hemsef discovers that history is repeating itself... and this time, the invaders come armed with AI drones, robotic legions, and centuries of perfected domination.

As alliances fracture, betrayals ignite, and ancient forests awaken with ancestral wrath, Hemsef must confront the truth:
the greatest threat to Alkebulan may not be the invaders, but the tribes willing to sell their souls to them.

Epic, poetic, and charged with the weight of history, The Aurachrome Wars is a sweeping Afrofuturist saga about resistance, identity, and the battle to reclaim a continent's future from the ghosts of its past.