Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
"dis • rup • tion/d?s'r?p.??n/ [noun] Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.
This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. In these evocative, often prescient, stories, new and emerging writers from across Africa investigate many
of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more.
From a post-apocalyptic African village in Innocent Ilo’s “Before We Die Unwritten,” to space colonization in Alithnayn Abdulkareem’s “Static,” to a mother’s attempt to save her infant from a dust storm in Mbozi Haimbe’s “Shelter,” Disruption illuminates change around and within, and our infallible
capacity for hope amidst disaster. Facing our shared anxieties head on, these authors scrutinize assumptions and invent worlds that combine the fantastical with the probable, the colonial with the dystopian, and the intrepid with the powerless, in stories recognizing our collective future and our disparate present."
Alithnayn Abdulkareem, Doreen Anyango, Edwin Okolo, Genna Gardini, Idza Luhumyo, Innocent Ilo, Jacob M'hango, Julia Smuts Louw, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Kevin Mogotsi, Liam Brickhill, Macsmart Ojiludu, Masiyaleti Mbewe, Mbozi Haimbe, Melusi Nkomo, Nadia Ahidjo-Iya, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Nicholas Dawn, Philisiwe Twijnstra, Victor Forna, Yefon Isabelle (Author), Ariyan Kassam, Dele Ogundiran, Tony Tambi (Narrator)
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