Wasafiri 12: Focus on African Literature
Focus on African Literature, Interview with Earl Lovelace Poetry by Patience Agbabi, Fred D’Aguiar and Martin Bennett Fiction by Iyamide Hazeley, Dayo Okunlola and Bahadur Tejani Articles on Post War Nigeria
Highlights
Interview with Earl Lovelace
Poetry by Patience Agbabi, Fred D’Aguiar and Martin Bennett
Fiction by Iyamide Hazeley, Dayo Okunlola and Bahadur Tejani
Articles on Post War Nigeria and the Poetry of Anger, voices from within South African prisons and literature from the South Pacific
Maya Jaggi reviews Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and Abdulrazak Gurnah reviews Navigation of a Rainmaker by Jamal Mahjoub.
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial Note
J O J Nwachukwu-Agbada
Post-War Nigeria and the Poetry of Anger
Stephen Chan
Presidentialism in Lusaka and Harare
Charles Sarvan
Bessie Head: Two Letters
Anthony D Cavaluzzi
Exiled Within: Voices from South African Prisons
Rod Edmond
South Pacific Literature: Post-colonialism and Post Modernism
Mynah Saunders
Recent Educational Changes and Ethnic Minorities
Maya Jaggi
Interviews Earl Lovelace
Melvin E Lewis
Poems: Letters
Ogonna Agu
Love Poems to the Lady of Red Eyes
Patience Agbabi
Poem: Learning the Language
Martin Bennett
Two Poems on First Arriving in Yaba, Lagos
Fred D’Aguiar
Poems: Black Ink and Beggar and Politician
Bahadur Tejani
Fiction: Black Cosmos
Dayo Okunlola
Fiction: The Sapped Guinness
Iyamide Hazeley
Fiction: The Party
Reviews
Stewart Brown
Odia Ofeimun The Poet Lied
Obiroa Udechukwu What the Madman Said
Femi Oyebode Wednesday is a Colour
Cathy Cundy
Upamanyu Chatterjee English, August: An Indian Story
Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines
David Richards
Neil Lazarus Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction
Louis James
Anne Walmsley, ed Guyana Dreaming: The Art of Aubrey Williams
Maya Jaggi
Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Jamal Mahjoub Navigation of a Rainmaker
Jan Shepherd
Helen Collinson, ed Women and Revolution in Nicaragua
