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Wasafiri 59: Everything to Declare - 25th Anniversary Issue
Wasafiri 59: Everything to Declare - 25th Anniversary Issue
Wasafiri 59
Everything to Declare - 25th Anniversary Issue
Essays by Fred D'Aguiar, Anita Desai, Maya Jaggi and Kamila Shamsie
Fiction by Gita Hariharan, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Christie Watson and Zoë Wicomb
Poems by Moniza Alvi, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Horovitz, Karen McCarthy and Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Interviews with Chinua Achebe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Doris Lessing and Ahdaf Soueif
Art Essay on Aubrey Williams
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial: Everything to Declare
Simon Gikandi
Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart (1958): An Interview with Chinua Achebe
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Buono Sera: How Many Eggs Have You Got Today?
Maya Jaggi
World Literature: Opening the Universe a Little More
Hermione Lee
A Conversation with Doris Lessing
Michael Horovitz
Poem: Extra Time Meltdown
Anita Desai
On Being an Indian Writer Today
Githa Hariharan
Fiction: Crossing Borders
Lawrence Scott
Poems including August at Mayaro
Alex Wheatle
A Conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson
Fred D’Aguiar
Country Come to Town: A Personal Journey
Moniza Alvi
Poems: Montevideo and The Portrait
Zoë Wicomb
Fiction: In Search of Tommie
Jamal Mahjoub
A Correspondence with Ahdaf Soueif
Sujata Bhatt
Poems: Straight Through the Heart, Gregor’s Sister Speaks, No Tiger is Plain, You Have the Blue, A Word Spoken on Land and Where is Your Silver Dream?
Leon Wainwright
Aubrey Williams: A Painter in the Aftermath of Painting
Memories, Dreams and Reflections: Wasafiri Tales from Around the World
Leila Aboulela, Luis Benítez, Stewart Brown, Jane Bryce, Brian Chikwava, David Dabydeen, Denise deCaires Narain, Robert Fraser, John Haynes, Louis James, Jackie Kay, Bénédict Ledent, Valerie Mason-John, Beverley Naidoo, Suniti Namjoshi, Alastair Niven, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Olive Senior, Miriam Sivan, Saradha Soobrayen, Chika Unigwe, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems: Adopted Cat, Light (Lodhi Gardens), The New Ark and Cricket
Rimi B Chatterjee
Fiction: The Garden of Bombahia
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Poems: Daybreak at Swanlake, E be so (Red, Accra, 1980), Lapse and Rich Tea
Kamila Shamsie
‘International Writing’: Past, Present and Future Directions
Catherine O’Flynn
Fiction: The Periscope
Karen McCarthy
Poems: An Alchemical Notation and A Late Lunch at the Luxor Hilton
Amara Lakhous
Fiction: Dreaming of Marilyn’s Golden Hair
Christie Watson
Fiction: Basketball Player
Tolu Ogunlesi
Poems: Pilgrim’s Progress and Manifesto
Editorial: Everything to Declare
Simon Gikandi
Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart (1958): An Interview with Chinua Achebe
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Buono Sera: How Many Eggs Have You Got Today?
Maya Jaggi
World Literature: Opening the Universe a Little More
Hermione Lee
A Conversation with Doris Lessing
Michael Horovitz
Poem: Extra Time Meltdown
Anita Desai
On Being an Indian Writer Today
Githa Hariharan
Fiction: Crossing Borders
Lawrence Scott
Poems including August at Mayaro
Alex Wheatle
A Conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson
Fred D’Aguiar
Country Come to Town: A Personal Journey
Moniza Alvi
Poems: Montevideo and The Portrait
Zoë Wicomb
Fiction: In Search of Tommie
Jamal Mahjoub
A Correspondence with Ahdaf Soueif
Sujata Bhatt
Poems: Straight Through the Heart, Gregor’s Sister Speaks, No Tiger is Plain, You Have the Blue, A Word Spoken on Land and Where is Your Silver Dream?
Leon Wainwright
Aubrey Williams: A Painter in the Aftermath of Painting
Memories, Dreams and Reflections: Wasafiri Tales from Around the World
Leila Aboulela, Luis Benítez, Stewart Brown, Jane Bryce, Brian Chikwava, David Dabydeen, Denise deCaires Narain, Robert Fraser, John Haynes, Louis James, Jackie Kay, Bénédict Ledent, Valerie Mason-John, Beverley Naidoo, Suniti Namjoshi, Alastair Niven, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Olive Senior, Miriam Sivan, Saradha Soobrayen, Chika Unigwe, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Indran Amirthanayagam
Poems: Adopted Cat, Light (Lodhi Gardens), The New Ark and Cricket
Rimi B Chatterjee
Fiction: The Garden of Bombahia
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Poems: Daybreak at Swanlake, E be so (Red, Accra, 1980), Lapse and Rich Tea
Kamila Shamsie
‘International Writing’: Past, Present and Future Directions
Catherine O’Flynn
Fiction: The Periscope
Karen McCarthy
Poems: An Alchemical Notation and A Late Lunch at the Luxor Hilton
Amara Lakhous
Fiction: Dreaming of Marilyn’s Golden Hair
Christie Watson
Fiction: Basketball Player
Tolu Ogunlesi
Poems: Pilgrim’s Progress and Manifesto
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