Wasafiri 3
Robert Fraser on Kojo Laing, including an extract from Search Sweet Country / Short stories by Veronique Tadjo and Mike Phillips / An extract from Anya Asale’s Panman / Poems by Fred D’Aguiar and David Dabydeen / A review of Wole Soyinka’s Blues for the Prodigal
Contents
Prabhu Guptara
Editorial: A Triumph to Have Happened at All
Joyce Johnson
Bessie Head and the Oral Tradition: The Structure of Maru
Robert Fraser
Kojo Laing: Profile and Extract from Search Sweet Country
Russell McDougall
Okonkwo’s Walk: The Choreography of Things Fall Apart
Veronique Tadjo
Fiction: The Magician and the Girl
Anya Asale
Extract from Panman
Mike Phillips
Fiction: The Smell of the Coast
Leslie Anthony Goffe
Poem: Seamstress
Marsha Prescod
Poem: May the Force be with You
David Dabydeen
Poem: Ballad of the Little Black Boy
Fred D’Aguiar
Black British and other poems
Alexander Baron
Poems: Rebel; 26
Reviews
Neville Grant
Elizabeth Gunner A Handbook for Teaching African Literature
John Welch
South Asian Poetry for the English Classroom
Lyn Innes
Britt Olinder, ed A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literature
Adetokunbo Pearse
Ellen Kuzwayo Call Me Woman
James Gibbs
Wole Soyinka, dir Blues for the Prodigal
