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Issue 92

Wasafiri 92

Issue 92: Winter 2017


Daughters of Africa Anniversary: Ayobami Adebayo, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey with Margaret Busby, Candida Lacey, Edwige-Renée Dro, Angela Barry, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Nadifa Mohamed, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Fiction by Caroline Kinya Mbaya, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Chenko Salvatore, Leone Ross, Sambudha Sen, Carol McKay

Poems by Raymond Antrobus, Salil Chaturvedi, John Siddique

Interviews with Bejan Matur and Kerry Young

Articles by Jonty Driver, Emma Bird and Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Art Essay on Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga's Tushauriane – Let's Talk About It

Reviews: Sunila Galappatti A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka; Lakshmi Holmström and Sascha Ebeling, ed Lost Evenings, Lost Lives: Tamil Poems of the Sri Lankan War; Nayomi Munaweera What Lies Between Us; Abdulrazak Gurnah Gravel Heartand more...


Contents

Arifa Akbar
Editorial       


Daughter of Africa anniversary series


Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
An Interview with Margaret Busby


Candida Lacey
Memoir: Daughters of Africa


Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Poem: Tissue Paper
Poem: Common Wealth


Encounters with ‘Daughters of Africa’ from around the world


Edwige-Renée Dro    Côte d’Ivoire 


Angela Barry Bermuda


Goretti Kyomuhendo Uganda


Nadifa Mohamed Somalia


Phillippa Yaa de Villiers South Africa


Ayobami Adebayo Nigeria


Caroline Kinya Mbaya Fiction: The 43rd Tribe    


Tlotlo Tsamaase
Fiction: They Don’t Believe God Grows in Our Hearts


Julian Wacker An Interview with Kerry Young    


Jonty Driver
Essay: ‘On Treachery, friendship and forgiveness’    


Emma Bird
Essay: ‘Relocating Bombay’s Poetry Scene: Taking a Walk through the City of Dreams’    


Bidisha
An Interview with Bejan Matur   


Charlotte Jansen
Art piece: Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga’s ‘Tushauriane – Let’s Talk About It’   


Maria Cristina Fumigalli
Art: Derek Wallcott and Peter Doig, ‘Morning, Paramin’


Jorge Cino
Fiction: What We Choose to Reveal   


Leone Ross
Fiction: This One Sky Day    


Sambudha Sen
Fiction: God Tussi Gay Ho


Carol McKay
Fiction: Troubles


Salil Chaturvedi
Poetry: Balcao Jazz    


Raymond Antrobus
Poetry: Wear You Last Autumn
Recognising Mum’s Boyfriend  


John Siddique
Poetry: The Years Ahead Are Heavy
Last Skies of the Year    


Reviews


Birte Heidemann Review Essay


Sunila Galappatti A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka


Lakshmi Holmström and Sascha Ebeling, ed Lost Evenings, Lost Lives: Tamil Poems of the Sri Lankan War


Nayomi Munaweera What Lies Between Us


Petr Barta
Abdulrazak Gurnah Gravel Heart


Jane Feaver
Vivek Shanbhag Ghachar Ghochar


Suvasree Karanjai
Tishani Doshi The Adulterous Citizen
Sadhu Binning Fauji Banta Singh and Other Stories


Edwige-Renée Dro
Ahmed Masoud Vanished, the mysterious disappearance of Mustafa Ouda
Marie Vieux Chauvet Dance on the Volcano


WB Gooderham
Armando Lucas Correa The German Girl


Debadrita Chakraborty
Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert, ed Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, religion, representations


Maya Parmar
Saima S Hussain, ed The Muslimah who fell to Earth: Personal stories by Canadian Muslim Women


Wendy Singer
Ruvani Ranasinha Contemporary Diasporic South Asians Women's Fiction
Maria Ridda Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond: South Asian Diasporic Writing from 1990 to the Present


Rehana Ahmed
Rupa Huq, ed Reading the Riot Act: Reflections on the 2011 Urban Disorders in England
Nurjehan Aziz, ed The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada: Culture, Politics, and Self


Valerie L Popp
Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck, ed Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies
Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar, ed Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination


Jakob von Baeyer
Kaori Nagai, Caroline Rooney, Donna Landry, Monica Mattfield, Charlotte Sleigh and Karen Jones, ed Cosmopolitan Animals


Among the Contributors 

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