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