Part three, self-awareness, illusion, delusion and deception. Changes in ownership / Moso Sematlane. Wednesday's delight / Aba Asibon -- If the honey is sweet, why does the bee sting? / Salma Yusuf -- On chancellor's street / Kabubu Mutua -- In Madam's house / Emily Pensulo -- Manifesting / Doreen Ayango -- The third commandment / Khumbo Mhone -- The day the city wept / Moso Sematlane -- Girl's best friend / N.A. Dawn -- Good things to come / Josephine Sokan -- Heaven's mouth / Zanta Nkumane -- Part two, metamorphosis, cycles and identity. Vanishing / Kabubu Mutua -- I am what I am not / N.A. Dawn -- Exodus / Emily Pensulo -- Prayer times / Salma Yusuf -- Corpse driver / Khumbo Mhone -- Grey / Sola Njoku -- Mvelicanti's gift / Zanta Nkumane -- Akua'ba / Aba Asibon -- El?d? kekere (little pig) / Josephine Sokan -- Nankya's ghost / Doreen Anyango -- The river / Moso Sematlane -- Part three, self-awareness, illusion, delusion and deception. Sometimes you make me smile / Zanta Nkumane -- Pasture / Aba Asibon -- Sleight of hand / Josephine Sokan -- The darkness wins sometimes / Doreen Anyango -- N'ganga / Emily Pensulo -- Section 47 / Sola Njoku -- Elsewhere / Kabubu Mutua -- The girl with three faces / Khumbo Mhone -- With open palms / N.A. Dawn -- The circle of history / Salma Yusuf -- Changes in ownership / Moso Sematlane.
Summary:
"In Captive, eleven new and emerging writers from Africa and the African Diaspora explore the identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch us, and the self-delusions that tear 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."--Publisher's website.
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