
Wasafiri 14
Interview with Chinua Achebe Poetry by Martin Bennett, Byron Beynon, Peter Easter and Maggie Harris Reviews of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns, Olu Oguibe’s A Song From Exile
Higlights
Interview with Chinua Achebe
Poetry by Martin Bennett, Byron Beynon, Peter Easter and Maggie Harris
Reviews of Ben Okri's The Famished Road, Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns, Olu Oguibe's A Song From Exile, Tanure Ojaide's The Fate of Vultures and Derek Walcott's Omeros
Contents
Charles Bodunde
Tributes, Censures and Transitions: A Reading of Soyinka’s 'Mandela’s Earth' and Other Poems
Femi Abodunrin
Black Literature and Literary Theory
David Pell Goodwin
Poem: Jaguar MK IX
Chris Searle
Interviews Chinua Achebe
Peter Easter
Poem: L’Invitation au voyage
Michael Bennett
Crossing Gaps: Cultural Literacy and Others
Maggie Harris
Poem: Further Education
Stephen Gray
Indian Ocean Islands
Martin Bennett
Hausa Drummer and other poems
B W Beynon
Nyepi and other poems
Alfa
Poem: Dreams
Reviews
Paula Burnett
Derek Walcott Omeros
Nigel Rigby
L Hagerfors The Whales in Lake Tanganyika
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Ben Okri The Famished Road
Amryl Johnson
Elean Thomas The Last Room
Jacqueline Kaye
Tahar Ben Jelloun Silent Days in Tangier
Catherine Cundy
Anjana Appachana Incantations and Other Stories
Rod Edmond
Hone Tuwhare Mihi
Lyn Innes
Gayatri Spivak The Post-Colonial Critic
Karin Barber
Sylvia Ardyn Boone Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Julie Pearn
James Berry and Alistair Bamford, ed Bluefoot Cassettes
Masuwa
Shimmer Chinodya Harvest of Thorns
Stewart Brown
Olu Oguibe A Song from Exile
Tanure Ojaide The Fate of Vultures
Niyi Osundare Waiting Laughters
Femi Oyebode Forest of Transformation
Denise deCaires Narain
Rambai Espinet, ed Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women’s Poetry
John Agard Lovelines of a Goat-born Lady