Wasafiri 37: Focus on Africa

Issue 37: Winter 2002

Focus on Africa

Interviews with Ama Ata Aidoo and Vikram Chandra

Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Binyavanga Wainaina

Poems by Sue Butler, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kelwyn Sole and Satyendra Srivastava

Art Essay on Steve McQueen

Articles on the Heinemann African Writers Series, Zakes Mda and prostitution and pornography in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon

Reviews of Ketari Kushari Dyson's Memories of Argentina and Other Poems, Benjamin Zephaniah's Too Black, Too Strong, Charlotte William's Sugar and Slate and Rozina Visram's Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History 

Susheila Nasta
Editorial

Andrew Teverson
Interviews Vikram Chandra

María Frías
Women on Top: Prostitution and Pornography in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon

Satyendra Srivastava
The Creative Cell and other poems

Sue Butler
The Whale and other poems

Anthony Downey
Art Essay: Steve McQueen

The Caine Prize for African Fiction
Binyavanga Wainaina
Fiction: An Affair to Dismember

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction: The Scarf

Gail Low
In Pursuit of Publishing: Heinemann’s African Writers Series

Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Ghana by air and other poems

Irene Visser
How to Live in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reading Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying

Kelwyn Sole
Poem: Networks

Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Interviews Ama Ata Aidoo

Saloni Mathur
An Indian Encounter: Portraits for Queen Victoria

Bev Braune
Poem: The Goatish ‘I’

Tim Cunningham
Bayard and other poems

Reviews

Laura Peters
Laura Chrisman and Benita Parry, ed Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
David Theo Goldberg and Ato Quayson, ed Relocating Postcolonialism
Jean Pierre Durix, Hima Raza Turquoise,and Aamer Hussein The Global and the Particular in the English Speaking World

Esther Kober
Stephanos Stephanides with Karna Singh Translating Kali’s Feast: The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction

Debjani Chatterjee
William Radice, trans Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Ketari Kushari Dyson Memories of Argentina and Other Poems

Pietro Deandrea
Benjamin Zephaniah Too Black, Too Strong

Peter Fraser
Rozina Visram Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

Nana Yah Mensah
Charlotte Williams Sugar and Slate

Dennis Walder
Peter Morey Fictions of India: Narrative and Power

David Johnson
Tim Fulford with Carol Bolton, ed Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion, 1770-1835, Volume 1: North America
Tim Fulford and Peter J Kitson, ed Volume 2: Southeast Asia
Peter J Kitson, ed Volume 3: North and South Poles
Tilar J Mazzeo, ed Volume 4: Middle East

Angela Smith
Jack Mapanje, ed Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing