Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Dissent, disease, disaster: introducing Disruption, a short story collection from new and emerging African writers, many for the first time on North American shelves. Spanning genres, eras, and the African continent, from Libya, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and beyond, these 21 futuristic, evocative stories on the theme of disruption bring a distinctive African flavor to the global issues haunting our newsfeeds and harassing our dreams: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Dissent, disease, disaster. This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. These evocative, often prescient, stories showcase new and emerging writers from across Africa to investigate many of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more. In Disruption, authors from across Africa use their stories to explore the concept of change--environmental, political, and physical--and the power or impotence of the human race to innovate our way through it. 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. Disruption is the newest anthology from Short Story Day Africa, a non-profit organization established to develop and share the diversity of Africa's voices through publishing and writing workshops.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The stories here are telling us <br>disruption is and can be a catalyst for change. And that there is beauty<br> in the many disruptions we face. This anthology runs ahead of us and we<br> need, now more than ever, to catch up with the writers."-- Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Author and Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University</p><br><br>"Every year I look forward to the release Short Story Day Africa's <br>newest anthology, which brings together the newest writing from some of <br>the most exhilarating and talented writers on the continent. The themed <br>collections are exquisite, expansive, and this year, eerily prescient, <br>featuring stories on climate change, pandemics, social change, <br>surveillance, and space travel."<em>-- </em>Kelsey McFaul, Center for the Art of Translation<em> <p/></em><br><br>"The beautiful and the<br> ugly, grief and hope, warnings from our past and for our<br> future--<i>Disruption </i>captures all of this. [...] The stories in this collection are a call to continue hoping. As<br> long as we move forward and continue to survive on this earth, <br> there is still time for healing, both for the earth and<br> ourselves."-- <i>Shelf Unbound</i><br><br><br>A "brilliant and diverse collection of stories".... [<em>Disruption</em>] <br>carries so much soul. Many of the stories are so visceral they played <br>like a movie, a testament to the writers' adroit understanding of how <br>worldbuilding works." --<em>Isele Magazine</em><br>
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