Wasafiri 20: 10th Anniversary Special

Autumn 1994

10th Anniversary Special

Interviews with Caryl Phillips and Nayantara Sahgal

Poetry by Jean Arasanayagam, Valerie Bloom, Wilson Harris, Olu Oguibe, Ian Iqbal Rashidand Sudeep Sen.

Fiction by Newton Aduaka and Suniti Namjoshi

Essay by Wilson Harris

Articles on Wide Sargasso Sea, Toni Morrison, Sam Selvon and contemporary British writing

Reviews of Bonnie Greer's Hanging by Her Teeth, Zakes Mda's When People Play People: Developing Communication Through Theatre and Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman

Susheila Nasta
Editorial: The Scramble for New Literatures

Peter Hulme
The Place of Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Arasanayagam
Poem: Rewriting a History

Ian Iqbal Rashid
Goa and other poems

Aamer Hussein
Changing Seasons: Postcolonial or ‘Other’ Writing in Britain Today

Suniti Namjoshi
Fiction: Like Arjuna…

Verna P Moll
Poems: Testimony and I Found Myself in Kenya

John C Lyons
Behind The Carnival and other poems

Maya Jaggi
Interviews Caryl Phillips

Sudeep Sen
April’s Air and other poems

Newton Aduaka
Fiction: The Witch

Olu Oguibe
Poetry: Songs for Catalina

Wilson Harris
Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on Originality and Tradition

Minoli Salgado
Interviews Nayantara Sahgal

Valerie Bloom
Drivin’ tes’ and other poems

Accabre Huntley
Poem

Ken Puddicombe
Fiction: My Grandfather’s Garden of Earthly Delights

Helen Thomas
Toni Morrison: A Profile

Ken Ramchand, Susheila Nasta and Cyril Dabydeen
Memories of Sam Selvon

Cyril Dabydeen
Poem: Cogitating

Reviews

Angus Calder
Anna Grimshaw, ed The C L R James Reader
C L R James American Civilisation
Jagdish S Gundara and Ian Duffield, ed Essays on the History of Blacks in Britain

Jaqueline Kaye
Rasheed El-Enany Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning

Monica Turci and Jon Kear
Bonnie Greer Hanging by her Teeth

Annalisa Oboe
Brenda Cooper To Lay These Secrets Open: Evaluating African Writing

Shaun Richards
C L Innes  Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935

Rod Edmond
C K Stead, ed The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories
Paul Sharrad, ed Readings in Pacific Literature

D C R A Goonetilleke
Firdous Azim The Colonial Rise of the Novel

Robert J C Young
Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, ed Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

Kelley King Reidt
Kofi N Awoonor Comes the Voyager at Last

Anthony Ilona
Cyril Dabydeen Jogging in Havana

John Robert Lee
Frank Collymore The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories

Stewart Brown
Stephen Chan Trespassers by Martin Turner Crimson Train

Neville Grant
Stephen Landrigan The Pan Beaters

Femi Abodunrin
Zakes Mda When People Play People: Development Communication Through Theatre

Esiaba Irobi
Chris Dunton Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Drama Since 1970
Adrian Roscoe and Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, ed The Quiet Chameleon: Modern Poetry from Central Africa