Wasafiri 10
Poetry by Pepetela, Jean Arasanayagam and Alex Padamsee. Fiction by Mia Couto. Beryl Gilroy on Women Writers, Commitment and African and Caribbean literature. Nayantara Sahgal reviews The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Also reviews of Matagari by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Upon This Mountain by Timothy Wangusa, Heartease by Lorna Goodison and A Turn in the South by V S Naipaul.
Highlights
Articles on African Literature in Portuguese, Lusophone literature and writing from Mozambique
Poetry by Jean Arasanayagam, Pepetela and Alex Padamsee
Fiction by Mia Couto
Reviews of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matagari, Timothy Wangusa's Upon This Mountain, Lorna Goodison's Heartease and V S Naipaul's Turn in the South
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial
David Brookshaw
Four Mozambican Writers
José Carlos Venâncio
African Literature in Portuguese: From Cultural Dualism to the Defence of Utopia
Rosemary Billingham
Pepetela: A Profile
Pepetela
From O Cao e os Caluandas (Rosemary Billingham, trans)
Mia Couto
Fiction: The Tale of the Two Who Returned from the Dead (David Brookshaw, trans)
Cy Grant
Blackness and the Dreaming Soul: An Introduction to a Reading of Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Beryl Gilroy
The Woman Writer and Commitment: Links Between Caribbean and African Literature
Jean Arasanayagam
From A Colonial Childhood 1 and other poems
Stephen Gray
Poems: Migrant and Crossing the Desert
Alex Padamsee
Poem: Stopped
Reviews
Nayantara Saghal
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Sauvir Kaul
V S Naipaul A Turn in the South
Selwyn R Cudjoe V S Naipul: A Materialist Reading
Mark Ralph-Bowman
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Matigari
Adewale Maja-Pearce
Kojo Laing Woman of the Aeroplanes
Maureen Alcorn
Timothy Wangusa Upon This Mountain
Pauline Dodgson
A D Amateshe, ed An Anthology of East African Poetry
K E Senanu and T Vincent, ed A Selection of African Poetry
Denise deCaires Narain
Ian McDonald Mercy Ward
Lorna Goodison Heartease
