Wasafiri 19: Focus on South Africa
Summer 1994
Focus on South Africa
Interview with Jack Mapanje
Fiction by Karen King-Aribisala and Kristina Rungaro Masuwa
Poetry by Chenjerai Hove, Indgrid de Kok and Sandile Dikeni
Artilces on Lewis Nkosi, Nadine Gordimer, black theatre in South Africa and the role of the South African critic
Reviews of André Brink's The First Life of Adamastor, Dambudzo Marechera's Cemetery of Mind, Yvonne Vera's Nehanda and Jack Mapanje's The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Contents
Kenneth Parker
In the New South Africa W(h)ither Literature?
Ingrid de Kok
Poems: Words from Wars and Ground Wave
Rustum Kozain
Another One For Vincent and other poems
Sandile Dikeni
Leaders and other poems
Michael Green
Nadine Gordimer’s ‘Future Histories’: Two Senses of an Ending
Chenjerai Hove
Picture and other poems
Rustum Kozain
Shakespeare’s Silences in Search of the People: South African Literary Criticism and the Poetry of Mzwakhe Mbuli
Ian Steadman
Black Theatre in South Africa
Nigel Rigby
Santa Clara University, Cuba
Karen Press
The triumph of capitalism and other poems
Kristina Rungaro Masuwa
South African Writing: Lewis Nkosi
Brenda Cooper
Liberated Repressions: Escaped Thoughts of a White South African Critic
Kristina Rungaro Masuwa
Fiction: Waiting for God’s Mercy
Landeg White
Interviews Jack Mapanje
Karen King-Aribisala
Fiction: High Tea
Reviews
Angus Calder
Leroy Vail and Landeg White, ed Power and the Praise Poem: South African Voices in History
Howard Booth
Norman Rush Mating
M J Daymond
Stephen Gray, ed The Natal Papers of ‘John Ross
Cornelius Vijn Cetshwayo’s Dutchman
Clive Wake
Flora Veit-Wild Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book
Dambudzo Marechera Cemetery of Mind
Charles Samupindi Pawns
Titus Moetsabi Fruits and Other Poems
Clive Wake
Mongane Wally Serote Third World Express
Sandile Dikeni Guava Juice
Emergency Poems by Keith Gottschalk
Keith Gottschalk Gardens of Struggle
Karen Press The Coffee Shop Poems
Gladys Thomas Avalon Court
John Reed
Landeg White The View from the Stockade
Landeg White Bounty
Susan Wright
André Brink The First Life of Adamastor
S J Wiseman
Beryl Gilroy Stedman and Joanna – A Love in Bondage
Clive Wake
Yvonne Vera Nehanda
Robert Bush
Stephen Gray War Child
Stephen Chan
Preben Kaarsholm, ed Cultural Struggle and Development in Southern Africa
Angela Smith
Jack Mapanje The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Julie Minkler
Charlotte Watson Sherman One Dark Body
In the New South Africa W(h)ither Literature?
Ingrid de Kok
Poems: Words from Wars and Ground Wave
Rustum Kozain
Another One For Vincent and other poems
Sandile Dikeni
Leaders and other poems
Michael Green
Nadine Gordimer’s ‘Future Histories’: Two Senses of an Ending
Chenjerai Hove
Picture and other poems
Rustum Kozain
Shakespeare’s Silences in Search of the People: South African Literary Criticism and the Poetry of Mzwakhe Mbuli
Ian Steadman
Black Theatre in South Africa
Nigel Rigby
Santa Clara University, Cuba
Karen Press
The triumph of capitalism and other poems
Kristina Rungaro Masuwa
South African Writing: Lewis Nkosi
Brenda Cooper
Liberated Repressions: Escaped Thoughts of a White South African Critic
Kristina Rungaro Masuwa
Fiction: Waiting for God’s Mercy
Landeg White
Interviews Jack Mapanje
Karen King-Aribisala
Fiction: High Tea
Reviews
Angus Calder
Leroy Vail and Landeg White, ed Power and the Praise Poem: South African Voices in History
Howard Booth
Norman Rush Mating
M J Daymond
Stephen Gray, ed The Natal Papers of ‘John Ross
Cornelius Vijn Cetshwayo’s Dutchman
Clive Wake
Flora Veit-Wild Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book
Dambudzo Marechera Cemetery of Mind
Charles Samupindi Pawns
Titus Moetsabi Fruits and Other Poems
Clive Wake
Mongane Wally Serote Third World Express
Sandile Dikeni Guava Juice
Emergency Poems by Keith Gottschalk
Keith Gottschalk Gardens of Struggle
Karen Press The Coffee Shop Poems
Gladys Thomas Avalon Court
John Reed
Landeg White The View from the Stockade
Landeg White Bounty
Susan Wright
André Brink The First Life of Adamastor
S J Wiseman
Beryl Gilroy Stedman and Joanna – A Love in Bondage
Clive Wake
Yvonne Vera Nehanda
Robert Bush
Stephen Gray War Child
Stephen Chan
Preben Kaarsholm, ed Cultural Struggle and Development in Southern Africa
Angela Smith
Jack Mapanje The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Julie Minkler
Charlotte Watson Sherman One Dark Body
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