Megan Eardley is a writer and researcher who studies missionary societies and the private security industry. She writes regularly for Africa is a Country, and has also contributed to the Venice Biennale Ideological Guide, The State, and Close, Closer, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale. In 2013, she co-founded THE FUTURE WEIRD, a film screening series focused on sci-fi, experimental, speculative & weird films made by directors from Africa and the Global South.