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 nonprofit organization established to develop and share the diversity of Africa’s voices through publishing and writing workshops. 

Authors include:

• MacSmart Ojiludu
• Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
• Najwa Bin Shatwan
• Nadia Ahidjo-Iya
• Innocent Ilo
• Melusi Nkomo
• Victor Forna
• Nicholas Dawn
• Genna Gardini
• Philisiwe Twijnstra
• Doreen Anyango
• Masiyaleti Mbewe
• Julia Smuts Louw
• Liam Brickhill
• Jacob M'hango
• Kevin Mogotsi
• Mbozi Haimbe
• Idza Luhumyo
• Alithnayn Abdulkareem
• Yefon Isabelle
• Edwin Okolo
• Rachel Zadok
• Karina Szczurek
• Jason Mykl Snyman