Based on the study of contemporary African science fiction novels (writ ten by Lauren Beukes, Nnedi Okorafor, Tade Thompson), this text aims to analyze what the animal link tells us about interspecies relations and political imaginaries. Alternately utopias and dystopias, these novels ima gine African futures who actually formulate fierce criticisms of the contem porary world, taking the animal as a key character, as a metaphor, or as a perspective of inter-species symbiosis.