Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa

Josephine Sokan,Khumbo Mhone,N A Dawn,Emily Pensulo,Zanta Nkumane,Salma Abdulatif Yusuf,Doreen Anyango,Kabubu Mutua,Aba Amissah Asibon,Moso Sematlane,Sola Njoku,Sola Njoku,N A Dawn,Zanta Nkumane,Aba Amissah Asibon,Moso Sematlane,Josephine Sokan,Khumbo Mhone,Emily Pensulo,Salma Abdulatif Yusuf,Doreen Anyango,Kabubu Mutua
Publisher: Catalyst Press
May 7 2024
EAN: 9781946395948
ISBN: 1946395943
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Synopsis:

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.