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Issue 6, Spring/Autumn 1987

Wasafiri 6 & 7: Focus on Education

Adewale Maja-Pearce interviews Kojo Laing. Sara Chetin interviews Ama Ata Aidoo. Short fiction by Ndeley Mokoso, Henri Lopez and Toby Wallace. Poetry by John Haynes, David Dabydeen, Cyril Dabydeen and Jean Arasanayagam. Abdulrazak Gurnah reviews Zinder by Stewart Brown, Carolyn Cooper reviews The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips and Eckhard Breitinger reviews Requiem for a Futurologist by Wole Soyinka.

Double Issue: Focus on Education


Contents

Susheila Nasta and Adewale Maja-Pearce
Editorial Note

Michael Etherton
African Theatre and Political Action

Steve Chimombo
Learning African Literature

Derek Wright
The Well-Worn Way: Armah’s Histories

Peter Traves
Anti-Racist, Multicultural and Socialist Education

Robert Bush
GCSE Literature and Multicultural Concerns

Maureen Alcorn
Top Caribbean Texts For GCSE

Michael Bennett
Literature and Anti-Racist Teaching: Medium or Vehicle?

Sara Chetin
Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo

Adewale Maja-Pearce
Interview with Kojo Laing

Ndeley Mokoso
Fiction: Man Pass Man

Henri Lopez
Fiction: The Esteemed Representative

Tony Wallace
Fiction: Tutuola, Mrs Emeruah and Me

Jean Arasanayagam
Poems: My Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law

David Dabydeen
Poems: Missie and the Coconut Man and Christmas in England

Cyril Dabydeen
Poems: Evolution Song and Jim Jones Revisited

John Hayes
Poem: Bessie Smith

Idi Bukar
Poem: A Madman is Directing the Traffic

Reviews

Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Paula Burnett, ed Penguin Book of Caribbean Versein English

Eckhard Breitinger
Wole Soyinka Requiem for a Futurologist

John Haynes
Robert Fraser West African Poetry: A Critical History

Adewale Maja-Pearce
The Nigerian Civil War

Martin Turner
V S Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Stewart Brown Zinder

Carolyn Cooper
Caryl Phillips The European Tribe

Wasafiri BLOC event

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