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"Brittle Paper's ""Anticipated African Books of 2024"" From Short Story Day Africa, eleven writers from Africa and the African diaspora explore the identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch us, and the self-delusions that drive us apart. Passion and apathy, creation and destruction, honesty and deception--the blurred lines between these powerful forces are fundamental to the human condition. In three parts, the writers of Captive investigate these liminal spaces and rail against the boxes in which others seek to confine them, as writers, as Africans, and as humans. Journey from the fantastical Heaven's Mouth where time stands still, to a London bus where a neurodiverse woman steals love to the songs of Tom Jones . . . flip the page to Ghana to examine a fertility fetish, or a post-apocalyptic Lesotho where sentient AI uses our emotions against us . . . visit the deceptively beautiful islands off the Tanzanian coast, where the ocean is always hungry, and women pay the price. Captive is a riot of imagination, a collision of worlds, and a testament to the shape-shifting nature of the soul."

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"Praise for Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa (2021)""50 Notable African Books of 2021″--Brittle Paper""60 Best Books of 2021″--Open Country Magazine""An electric collection of stories that seethes with horror and beauty."" -- Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Afterland""A must-read. This book features a number of brilliant speculative pieces by African authors. [...] Learn their names, spread the word."" -- Lightspeed Magazine""The beautiful and the ugly, grief and hope, warnings from our past and for our future--Disruption captures [it] all."" -- Shelf Unbound""This anthology runs ahead of us and we need, now more than ever, to catch up.""-- Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University""[A] brilliant and diverse collection of stories.... [Disruption] carries so much soul."" -- Isele Magazine""Every year I look forward to the release of Short Story Day Africa's newest anthology, which brings together the newest writing from some of the most exhilarating and talented writers on the continent. [...] Exquisite, expansive... eerily prescient.""-- Kelsey McFaul, Center for the Art of Translation"

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Writers: Abba Amissah Asibon (Ghana) Doreen Anyango (Uganda) Emily Pensulo (Zambia) Josephen Sokan (Nigeria/UK) Kabubu Mutua (Kenya) Khumbo Mhone (Malawi) Moso Sematlane (Lesotho) N.A. Dawn (South Africa) Salma Abdulatif Yusuf (Kenya) Sola Njoku (Nigeria) Zanta Nkumane (Eswatini) Mentors: Tochukwu Okafor, Karen Jennings, TJ Benson, Doreen Baingana, Olumide Popoola and Emma Shercliff Edited by Rachel Zadok and Helen Moffett

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