Wasafiri 105

Wasafiri Issue 105

Editorial Radically Disruptive Connection

Interviews C A Davids and Kelwyn Sole, East African Small Presses, Mohsin Hamid, Okey Ndibe

Articles Grenfell, Race, Remembrance; Performance Poetry, Covid-19 and the New ‘Public Sphere’; Stop Finding Dimensions to Silence: Selections and Reflections from Octavia Poetry Collective

Art The Philippine Inclination

Fiction Selvedin Avdić, Ethel Maqeda, Sharma Taylor

Poetry Byron Beynon, Tom Sastry, Yasmine Seale, Dahmicca Wright

Life Writing Sharanya Deepak

Review Essay ‘Africa Pulse’: Dynamic Interventions in African Literature

Reviews Hazel V Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands; Predrag Matvejević, Our Daily Bread; An Yu, Braised Pork

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Editorial

RADICALLY DISRUPTIVE CONNECTION
Emily Mercer

Lead Feature

GRENFELL, RACE, REMEMBRANCE
Claire Launchbury

Articles

PERFORMANCE POETRY, COVID-19 AND THE NEW ‘PUBLIC SPHERE’
Tom Kew

‘STOP FINDING DIMENSIONS TO SILENCE’: SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS FROM
OCTAVIA POETRY COLLECTIVE
Rachel Long, Ankita Saxena, Amaal Said, and Momtaza Mehri

Interviews

‘ANXIOUS CITIZENS OF THE ATTENTION ECONOMY’: IN CONVERSATION WITH MOHSIN HAMID
Saba Karim Khan

HISTORY, HUMOUR AND SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA: AN INTERVIEW WITH OKEY NDIBE
Rebekah Cumpsty

WORKING CREATIVELY ACROSS MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND LOCATION: EAST AFRICA–UK LITERARY COLLABORATIONS
Kate Wallis

VIVA SOUTH AFRICAN VOICES: C A DAVIDS AND KELWYN SOLE
C A Davids and Kelwyn Sole

Art

THE PHILIPPINE INCLINATION: MIGRATIONS OF ART
Patrick Flores

Fiction

A DROP OF HAPPINESS
Selvedin Avdić (trans. by Will Firth)

HOW YOU MAKE JAMAICAN COCONUT OIL (TAKEN FROM PAGE 38 OF THE OLE-TIME JAMAICA RECIPE BOOK)
Sharma Taylor

PEACE BE STILL
Ethel Maqeda

Poetry

THE CONTRACT CLEANERS PREPARE FLAT 64 FOR THE NEXT TENANT
Tom Sastry

A MUSICIAN’S EAR
Byron Beynon

WOUND
Dahmicca Wright

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM (ARABIC SAYING TRANSLATED TWENTY WAYS)
Yasmine Seale

Reviews

REVIEW ESSAY: ‘AFRICA PULSE’: DYNAMIC INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE Stitching a Whirlwind: An Anthology of Southern African Poems and Translations – Antjie Krog, coordinator

She’s to Blame – B M Khaketla, trans. by J M Lenake
Senkatana – S M Mofokeng, trans. by J M Lenake
Don Jadu – S E K Mqhayi, trans. by T Mabeqa, N Mpolweni and T Ntwana
The Lawsuit of the Twins – S E K Mqhayi, trans. by T Mabeqa
Chris Dunton

Braised Pork – An Yu
Crystal Koo

Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War – Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham
Manav Ratti

Letter’s Home 回家 – Jennifer Wong
Jason Eng Hun Lee

Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa – Ashleigh Harris
Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa – Carli Coetzee
Daniel Chukwuemeka

Our Daily Bread – Predrag Matvejević, trans. by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić
Tom Conaghan

Islamophobia and the Novel – Peter Morey
Mohammad Farhan

Jacob’s Advice – Jude Cook
W B Gooderham

Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands – Hazel V Carby
Henghameh Saroukhani

Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community – James Ogude, ed.
Dina Ligaga