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Issue 100, Winter 2019

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

 
Alastair Niven Celebrating an Abundance, 1984-2019: Thirty-five Literary Highlights from Aotearoa to Zimbabwe

 
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