Wasafiri 61
Issue 61: Spring 2010
Fiction by Mark Czanik, Nadine Gordimer and Obi Nwakanma
Poems by Jerome Branche, John Mateer and Monica Mody
Life Writing by Xu Xi
Interviews with Jackee Budesta Batanda, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Michael Moorcock and K Satchidanandan
Articles on teaching September 11 in the classroom, African identity in Moroccan music and Islam and masculinity in Lee Kok Liang's fiction
Art essay on 'Tracey Emin' as Sign
Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2009
Reviews of Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy, Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation, Daljit Nagra's Look We Have Coming to Dover!, Brian Chikwava's Harare North and Lauren Beukes's Moxyland
Contents
Nadine Gordimer
Fiction: No Time Like the Present
Amitava Kumar
Teaching September 11 in the Classroom
Sébastien Doubinsky
An Interview with Michael Moorcock
John Mateer
Poems
Xu Xi
Life Writing: Maternity Leave
The Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2009
Poem by Rowyda Amin
Fiction by Ola Awonubi
Life Writing by Bart Moore-Gilbert
Alexandra M Kokoli
On Probation: 'Tracey Emin' as Sign
Ziad Bentahar
The Visibility of African Identity in Moroccan Music: From Gnawa to Ghiwane and Back
Ashok Bery
Sunil Gangopadhyay and K Satchidanandan in Conversation
Monica Mody
Poem
Mark Czanik
Fiction: Mr Polanski
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Islam, Masculinity and the Crisis of Conversion in Lee Kok Liang's 'Ibrahim Something'
Doreen Strauhs
'Guys, we are really not like this!': Jackee Budesta Batanda in Conversation
Obi Nwakanma
Fiction: The Image Maker
Jerome Branche
Poems
Reviews
Tolu Ogunlesi
Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation
Chris Abani Song For Night
Biyi Bandele Burma Boy
Ahmadou Kourouma Allah Is Not Obliged
Véronique Bragard
David Dabydeen, Jonathan Morley, Brinsley Samaroo, Amar Wahab and Brigid Wells, eds The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship's Surgeon Aboard the Hesperus, 1837-8
Ian Dieffenthaller
Stewart Brown Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry
Sarah Brouillette
Daljit Nagra Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Open Interval
Toh Hsein Min Means to an End
Florian Stadtler
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Manil Suri The Age of Shiva
Sean Christie
Brian Chikwava Harare North
Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters' Street
Lizzy Attree
Lauren Beukes Moxyland
Fiction: No Time Like the Present
Amitava Kumar
Teaching September 11 in the Classroom
Sébastien Doubinsky
An Interview with Michael Moorcock
John Mateer
Poems
Xu Xi
Life Writing: Maternity Leave
The Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2009
Poem by Rowyda Amin
Fiction by Ola Awonubi
Life Writing by Bart Moore-Gilbert
Alexandra M Kokoli
On Probation: 'Tracey Emin' as Sign
Ziad Bentahar
The Visibility of African Identity in Moroccan Music: From Gnawa to Ghiwane and Back
Ashok Bery
Sunil Gangopadhyay and K Satchidanandan in Conversation
Monica Mody
Poem
Mark Czanik
Fiction: Mr Polanski
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Islam, Masculinity and the Crisis of Conversion in Lee Kok Liang's 'Ibrahim Something'
Doreen Strauhs
'Guys, we are really not like this!': Jackee Budesta Batanda in Conversation
Obi Nwakanma
Fiction: The Image Maker
Jerome Branche
Poems
Reviews
Tolu Ogunlesi
Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation
Chris Abani Song For Night
Biyi Bandele Burma Boy
Ahmadou Kourouma Allah Is Not Obliged
Véronique Bragard
David Dabydeen, Jonathan Morley, Brinsley Samaroo, Amar Wahab and Brigid Wells, eds The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship's Surgeon Aboard the Hesperus, 1837-8
Ian Dieffenthaller
Stewart Brown Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry
Sarah Brouillette
Daljit Nagra Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Open Interval
Toh Hsein Min Means to an End
Florian Stadtler
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Manil Suri The Age of Shiva
Sean Christie
Brian Chikwava Harare North
Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters' Street
Lizzy Attree
Lauren Beukes Moxyland
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