Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa

Disruption is an anthology of short stories by African authors that explores the concept of change and the power of the human race to innovate. It includes the 2022 Caine Prize winning story Five Years Next Sunday by Idza Luhumyo, the 2022 Nommo Award shortlisted story Shelter by Mzobi Haimbe, and the 2023 O Henry Prize for Short Fiction winner Mother by Jacob M hango. The anthology showcases new and emerging writers from across Africa and investigates pressing issues such as climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, and surveillance. It illuminates change around and within, and our infallible capacity for hope amidst disaster.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 260 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2021
Publisher: Catalyst Books

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 Ilos "Before We Die Unwritten," to space colonization in Alithnayn Abdulkareems "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.

Weight: 458g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781946395573