Best African science fiction series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch science fiction shows from Africa, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Paranormal

    Paranormal 2020

    Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.

    Netflix
    69
  • Poster for Labyrinth

    Labyrinth 2012

    Jumping back and forth between modern and medieval France, the lives of two women separated by centuries, are united in their search for an ancient artifact.

    Channel 4
    58
  • Poster for The Brave Ones

    The Brave Ones 2022

    An all-mighty goddess reincarnated as a young woman must harness her divine powers to avenge her sister's death and protect her family from destruction.

    Netflix
    51
  • Poster for El Soffara

    El Soffara 2023

    Shafeeq, a tour guide, steals Tutankhamun's time travel whistle. A golden opportunity to get a do-over for his life and achieve his dreams.

    SHAHID
    70
  • Poster for Home is My Home

    Home is My Home 2022

    In a setting of comedy and horror, Benno is forced to return to Cairo in order to settle his inheritance, but is soon shocked to learn that what he inherits will expose him to terrifying adventures.

    70
  • Poster for In Your Dreams

    In Your Dreams 2023

    Best friends, Marcus and Lloyd, have just been evicted from their apartment and are struggling to keep their pest control business afloat. Then an old classmate introduces them to an ancient African statue that just might be the answer to their prayers. The tribe who created the relic believes it has the power to make dreams come true. Just not the kind of dreams our friends were hoping for.

    Amazon
    58
  • Poster for The Hibiscus-Man

    The Hibiscus-Man 2013

    This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.

    YouTube
    63
  • Poster for Seven Doors

    Seven Doors 2024

    It tells a story of Adedunjoye, a simple man who loves his wife and children, he was told to become the King of Ilara's Kingdom as the Kingship has gotten to his family lineage, uninterested in the offer, he vehemently refused, after several persuasion, he obliged and became the King, his ascension to the King was followed by a lot of opposition who sought to make his tenure miserable

    Netflix
    90
  • Poster for What You See is not What it Seems

    What You See is not What it Seems 2025

    It includes seven separate stories, each story will be presented in five episodes.

    SHAHID
    90
  • Poster for The End

    The End 2020

    In 2120 Jerusalem, an engineer tries to find a solution to the energy problem in light of the restrictions that the regime imposes on the population. However, everything changes when he comes across his robotic doppelganger.

    ON E
    52
  • Poster for Saleema Arrived

    Saleema Arrived 2023

    Follows a girl who starts reading an old book and once she reads it, she travels through many different times to face many funny situations.

    64
  • Poster for Ending with Style

    Ending with Style 2017

    A conflict between men and women becomes a third world war. All humans die except for a number of men and women in Egypt. After the Haj and Hajja appear, a truce is called between the commander of the men's army (Sultan) and the leader of the women army (Karma), but what will happen during this truce?

    DMC Drama
    63
  • Poster for Zodiac

    Zodiac 2019

    A group of university students find themselves the target of a curse killing them one by one in a manner related to their zodiac sign. Their quest to rescue themselves take them to the origin of this curse: Ancient Egypt.

    Viu
    66
  • Poster for Al Maddah

    Al Maddah 2021

    Saber returns from the dead to face the greatest the earth has ever known: the daughters of Satan! We hear about a mission to destroy humanity, and to free their greatest master Satan by any means possible…

    MBC MASR
    64
  • Poster for African Folktales Reimagined

    African Folktales Reimagined 2023

    Six beloved African folktales are boldly reimagined in this multilingual anthology series exploring themes of grief, love, and mysticism.

    Netflix
    52
  • Poster for The Covenant (The Permissible Speech)

    The Covenant (The Permissible Speech) 2015

    The story of the Covenant (العهد) unfolds in a fantasy world in an unset time and place, in an atmosphere of excitement, crime, horror and drama blended with magic and fantasy. The story of 3 small neighbouring villages and the struggles among the members of Aldiabh family to gain control over the villages and the Covenant which sets the rules of the land. The Family do not hesitate at anything in order to reach their goals, lying, ploting, stealing and even killing the people closest to them.

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  • Poster for Welcome Home

    Welcome Home 2022

    Assigned to investigate the revengeful murder of an unknown man, Adam begins to uncover the truth through torn photographs he finds at his house.

    SHAHID
    65
  • Poster for Gawdar

    Gawdar 2024

    A merchant has three children; Salem, Salim, and Gawdar. However, the life of the last son, Gawdar, becomes complicated, and he comes into conflict with the enemy Shimoun to reach the four treasures of the wiseman Shamardal.

    ON E
    55
  • Poster for COVID-25

    COVID-25 2021

    Set in 2025 when COVID-25 has spread around the world, an accident turns successful surgeon Yaseen into a YouTuber and he’s forced to face the mysterious virus.

    ON E
    42
  • Poster for Grandfather's Soul

    Grandfather's Soul 2025

    Yasmine is a failed plastic surgeon. She performed an operation on a famous artist and failed, which prompted the artist to file a case against her and force her to pay a fine of 10 million pounds. She had to sell the palace, but she was surprised to find no contract. During her search for the necklace inside the palace, she encountered events stranger than fiction...?!!

    Shofha
    60
  • Poster for The Silk Kingdom

    The Silk Kingdom 2025

    Three brothers separated by life are brought together in a fierce battle for the royal throne. Fate changes on the birthday of King Nour El-Din's second son, when Uncle Golden kills the king and pursues his heir. The faithful servant Radwan escapes with Princes Shams El-Din and Jalal El-Din, but they are separated. Shams El-Din grows up as a slave in the battalion, while Jalal El-Din grows up among thieves. When they meet again, conflicts between loyalty and betrayal explode in a battle for power.

    Yango Play
    53
  • Poster for Arrière El Goddem

    Arrière El Goddem 2025

    Helmi goes into a cave in the woods and gets transported back to 1991 Tunisia. He tries to communicate his situation to his parents and grandparents and make sense of his new life.

    YouTube
    45
  • Poster for Romana and Brtal

    Romana and Brtal 2005

    Based on Moroccan folklore, the series depicts a number of different folk tales, using the events to show pointed messages and moral lessons.

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  • Poster for The German Company for Paranormal Control: Gamgoum and Bembem

    The German Company for Paranormal Control: Gamgoum and Bembem 2020

    Gamgoum and Bembem decide to launch a company specializing in combating scary and extraordinary phenomena, an endeavor that lands them in trouble as they find themselves facing ghosts, thieves, vampires, and much more creatures.

    SHAHID
    31
  • Room 9 2012

    A television series set in an alternate Pan-African world, where evil thrives and darkness rules. Here, a specialized Police Occult Unit led by ambitious young detective Alice Kunene together with seasoned veteran Harkness and their high-tech detective team, hunts down the perpetrators of evil, both in the world of the living and of the dead.

    SABC 1
    30
  • Poster for Robot In Our House

    Robot In Our House 2021

    A young man named Youssef works on a project to manufacture a robot with artificial intelligence, and when he succeeds in creating the two delicious Zumba models, his life and the life of his family are quickly turned upside down.

    CBC
    30
  • Poster for Omar and Diab

    Omar and Diab 2020

    When Omar has a serious injury that prevents him from playing basketball and Diab gets electrocuted, they embark on a journey to get new jobs, and helpless, they buy a taxi, that's when their debts increase and they get in trouble to pay off the installments.

    Alhayah
    20
  • Poster for Le Trône d'Akachi

    Le Trône d'Akachi 2023

    Canal+ Afrique
    20
  • Interster 1982

    A South African Supermarionation children's television show about an undercover planetary defence agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar shipping company. The show mirrored the real world political issues of international isolation facing Apartheid South Africa with the Earth being depicted as a galactic pariah of the "Interplanetary League" due to its cold war with the planet "Krokon". The villain in the series was depicted by Prince Karnati or his evil henchmen.

    TV1
    10
  • Poster for ألف ليلة وليلة

    ألف ليلة وليلة 1984

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  • Poster for The End of the World is not Tomorrow

    The End of the World is not Tomorrow 1983

    Riad Abd Rabbo is a philosophy teacher who collides with the materialistic, utilitarian reality that is completely different from the values he has learnt and teaches his students, such as truth, goodness and beauty, and when he fails to fix what is wrong around him, the philosophy of Al-Dardiri, an old thinker who those around him believe has lost his mind, is confirmed. Riad resorts to the same logic as El Dardiri, who died waiting for aliens to help him come up with solutions to save the world from possible and very near doom.

    10
  • Subterranea 2024

    Eight participants are placed in an underground bunker for a psychological experiment. In a twist of irony, the world ends and they are now trapped in the bunker with nowhere to go.

    Showmax
    10
  • Poster for Not One Thousand and One Nights

    Not One Thousand and One Nights 2010

    A different take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade has a recurring dream that a soothsayer interprets as a sign that she only has two days left with her husband, before she meets the same fate as the women before her. Scheherazade comes up with a plot to escape that fate.

    نايل دراما
    10
  • Poster for Mulberry leaves-أوراق التوت

    Mulberry leaves-أوراق التوت 2015

    A mythological epic drama about two imaginary kingdoms: the pagan Dramhan and Sharinqah, which are considered the most powerful empires in the world. As the conflict between the two power houses rises, a Muslim man called Bin Ahmed gets stranded on their shores.

    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: سالم وغانم 2005

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي

    ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي 1995

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: الأشكيف وست الملاح 1989

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: فضل الله ووردانه 1996

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: بدر باسم وجوهرة بنت السمندل 1990

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: حمال الأسية 1990

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: ضوء المكان وبدر التمام 2000

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات المال

    ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات المال 1999

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: معروف الإسكافي 1993

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات الخال 1998

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for ألف ليلة وليلة

    ألف ليلة وليلة 1991

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for ألف ليلة وليلة

    ألف ليلة وليلة 1992

    The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando

    Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando 1986

    The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.

    Television of the Arab Republic of Egypt
    10
  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat

    Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat 1987

    (Karima w Halima W Fatima) The series tells in a fun way the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, where in every episode Sherazade tells a new story or continues a story and the beginning of a new story until the king always listens to it and postpones the decision to get rid of it.

    Egyptian Channel 1
    10
  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr

    Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr 1985

    A strange love story grows between the human prince Nour and the princess, the mermaid, who does not have legs but a tail like fish, and the mermaid tries to become as human as her lover until her love succeeds

    Television of the Arab Republic of Egypt
    10
  • URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika 2006

    URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika is a South African science fiction animated television series created by the animation department of Octagon CSI, which later became Clockwork Zoo. It started airing in October 2006, and ran until November 2009. It chronicles the adventures of a gang of teenagers who live in a futuristic Cape Town, renamed iKapa City, the last known city on the planet, as they fight the evil industrialist overlord Maximilian Malice. Pax Afrika, the son of the missing explorer Zingela Afrika, discovers that he has ancestral powers that allow him to see flashes of the future. Together with his friends, emo mechanic T-Man, hacker girl Keitu, and Una, Malice's rebellious daughter, Pax plans to find his father and save the city from Malice Industries. But his fate is also tied to the mysterious, hidden city of URBO - an environmental El Dorado located somewhere in the ruins of Africa.

    SABC 3
    10
  • Poster for Switchers

    Switchers 2012

    A student without ambition, broke and insecure, Amine is searching for meaning in his life. One day, like any other, while he is bored in a lecture hall, he meets the girl for whom he will want to change his life: Anissa! How can he win over this young blonde from a wealthy background? Thanks to the powers bestowed upon him by a mysterious figure who gives him a smartphone unlike any other—one that can transform and take on the appearance of anything. From that moment on, an adventure full of unexpected twists begins for Amine.

    10