Wasafiri 100: 35th Anniversary Issue
Editorial Susheila Nasta
Lead Article Maya Jaggi: The Art of Prescience
Interviews with Bernardine Evaristo, Romesh Gunesekara, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Articles When Memories Fade: Remembering Anti-Racism in Contemporary Black British Writing; Publishing, the Curriculum, and Black British Writing Today; Different Britains; and more...
Art Collage and Recollection: Three Black British Artists
Fiction Diana Evans, Aamer Hussein, Hamid Ismailov, Anthony Joseph, Chika Unigwe, Kerry Young
Poetry Fred D’Aguiar, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, SuAndi, Moniza Alvi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Pascale Petit
Special Section 35 Writers on 35 Years of Wasafiri
Review Essay Celebrating an Abundance, 1984-2019: Thirty-five Literary Highlights from Aotearoa to Zimbabwe
Contents
‘An Island Full of Voices’: Writing Britain Now
| Susheila Nasta | Editorial: ‘Handing on the Torch’ |
| Maya Jaggi Jackie Kay |
Lead Essay: The Art of Prescience Poem: At the Bottom of the Spanish Steps |
| Imtiaz Dharker |
Poem: Dear Next-Door |
| Kerry Young John McLeod |
Fiction: Tomorrow is Another Day When Memories Fade: Remembering Anti-Racism in Contemporary Black British Writing |
| Su Andi Bidisha |
Poems: When I was little I had Shirley Temple Curls, I want to write something Political, Holding hands with the past, and others The Challenges of Writing in Britain |
| Diana Evans | Fiction: On Ordinary People |
| Daljit Nagra | Poem: Jaan Jalebi |
| Razia Iqbal Bill Schwarz |
Belonging, Colonialism and Arrival: Abdulrazak Gurnah Talks to Razia Iqbal Literature and Terror |
| Fred D’Aguiar | Poem: Calypso |
| Chika Unigwe |
Fiction: The Weight of Love |
| Elizabeth Robles | Collage and Recollection: Three Black British Artists |
| Pacale Petit Hamid Ismailov |
Poems: Baghwa, Chital Girl Fiction: Michael, Whose Name Was Sarı |
| Susheila Nasta |
‘An Island is a World’: One to One with Romesh Gunesekera |
| SPECIAL SECTION |
Writing Britain and the World: 35 Writers on 35 Years of Wasafiri |
| Winnie M Li |
Different Britains |
| Alison Donnell | Interview: ‘Writing of and for Our Time’: Bernardine Evaristo Talks to Alison Donnell |
| Moniza Alvi | Poems: From Fairoz |
| Sharmaine Lovegrove |
Publishing Diversity: A Personal Journey |
| Aamer Hussein | Fiction: A Convalescence |
| Karen McCarthy Woolf |
Poem: Anthem |
| Elleke Boehmer and Erica Lombard |
Publishing, the Curriculum, and Black British Writing Today |
| Anthony Joseph Mimi Khalvati |
Fiction: The Frequency of Magic Poems: The Lesser Brethren, Facades |
| Grace Nichols | Poems: Tea with Demerera Sugar, Battle |
| Deirdre Osborne |
Institutional Exclusion to Institutionalisation: ‘Decolonising’ Literary Curricula |
| Review Essay |
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| Alastair Niven | Celebrating an Abundance, 1984-2019: Thirty-five Literary Highlights from Aotearoa to Zimbabwe |
