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Wasafiri 46: Africa 05
Issue 46: Winter 2005
Africa 05
Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Fiction by Segun Afolabi, Brian Chikwava, Tolu Ogunlesi and Chika Unigwe
Poems by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Articles on Phaswane Mpe, Kabelo ‘Sello’ Duiker and Yvonne Vera, publishing Bessie Head and literary prizes and African literature
Reviews of ‘Africa Remix’ at the Hayward Gallery, Munzu Islam's Burrow, Ato Quayson's Calibrations: Reading for the Social, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina’s Kitchen and Jackie Kay's Life Mask
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial
Segun Afolabi
Fiction: In the Garden
Ranka Primorac
Blood on the Sand: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Zimbabwean Tradition
Yannick Marshall
Bayakou and other poems
James Currey
Publishing Bessie Head: Memories and Reflections
Chika Unigwe
Fiction: Possessing the Secret of Joy
Lizzy Attree
Already Falling Apart? Phaswane Mpe, Kabelo ‘Sello’ Duiker and Yvonne Vera
Nisha Jones
Interviews Abdulrazak Gurnah
Brian Chikwava
Fiction: Zesa Moto Muzhinji
Anthony Downey
Art: Curating Africa: ‘ Africa Remix’ and the Categorical Dilemma
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Poems: memories of Ibadanand Interview
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Literary Prizes and the Creation of Literary Culture: Judging African Literature in Pan-Commonwealth and Pan-African Competitions
Tolu Ogunlesi
Fiction: Never Send Your Babies Out Nameless
Matt Kibble
The African Writers Series Reborn: An Electronic Edition
Caroline Rooney
Obituary: Yvonne Vera
Reviews
Stephanie Newell
Biodun Jeyifo Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism
Ato Quayson Calibrations: Reading for the Social
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade ‘Season of the Desert Flowers: Contemporary Women’s Poetry from Northern Nigeria’, in New Women’s Writing in African Literature. African Literature Today
Emily Wroe
Manzu Islam Burrow
Deirdre Osborne
Kwame Kwei-Armah Elmina’s Kitchen
Felicity Hand
Abdulrazak Gurnah Desertion
Oyeniyi Okunoye
Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 1
Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 2
Kathleen Starck
Jackie Kay Life Mask
John Masterson
Derek Wright, ed Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah
Christine Matzke
Martin Banham, ed A History of Theatre in Africa
Editorial
Segun Afolabi
Fiction: In the Garden
Ranka Primorac
Blood on the Sand: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Zimbabwean Tradition
Yannick Marshall
Bayakou and other poems
James Currey
Publishing Bessie Head: Memories and Reflections
Chika Unigwe
Fiction: Possessing the Secret of Joy
Lizzy Attree
Already Falling Apart? Phaswane Mpe, Kabelo ‘Sello’ Duiker and Yvonne Vera
Nisha Jones
Interviews Abdulrazak Gurnah
Brian Chikwava
Fiction: Zesa Moto Muzhinji
Anthony Downey
Art: Curating Africa: ‘ Africa Remix’ and the Categorical Dilemma
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Poems: memories of Ibadanand Interview
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Literary Prizes and the Creation of Literary Culture: Judging African Literature in Pan-Commonwealth and Pan-African Competitions
Tolu Ogunlesi
Fiction: Never Send Your Babies Out Nameless
Matt Kibble
The African Writers Series Reborn: An Electronic Edition
Caroline Rooney
Obituary: Yvonne Vera
Reviews
Stephanie Newell
Biodun Jeyifo Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism
Ato Quayson Calibrations: Reading for the Social
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade ‘Season of the Desert Flowers: Contemporary Women’s Poetry from Northern Nigeria’, in New Women’s Writing in African Literature. African Literature Today
Emily Wroe
Manzu Islam Burrow
Deirdre Osborne
Kwame Kwei-Armah Elmina’s Kitchen
Felicity Hand
Abdulrazak Gurnah Desertion
Oyeniyi Okunoye
Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 1
Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 2
Kathleen Starck
Jackie Kay Life Mask
John Masterson
Derek Wright, ed Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah
Christine Matzke
Martin Banham, ed A History of Theatre in Africa
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