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 Heart; and 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