Edwin Okolo

Liam Brickhill

Alithnayn Abdulkareem

MacSmart Ojiludu

Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

Najwa Bin Shatwan

Nadia Ahidjo-Iya

Innocent Ilo

Melusi Nkomo

Victor Forna

Yefon Isabelle

Mbozi Haimbe

Nicholas Dawn

Genna Gardini

Philisiwe Twijnstra

Doreen Anyango

Masiyaleti Mbewe

Julia Smuts Louw

Jacob M'hango

Kevin Mogotsi

Idza Luhumyo

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.