Wasafiri 12: Focus on African Literature
Focus on African Literature, Interview with Earl Lovelace Poetry by Patience Agbabi, Fred D’Aguiar and Martin Bennett Fiction by Iyamide Hazeley, Dayo Okunlola and Bahadur Tejani Articles on Post War Nigeria
Highlights
Interview with Earl Lovelace
Poetry by Patience Agbabi, Fred D’Aguiar and Martin Bennett
Fiction by Iyamide Hazeley, Dayo Okunlola and Bahadur Tejani
Articles on Post War Nigeria and the Poetry of Anger, voices from within South African prisons and literature from the South Pacific
Maya Jaggi reviews Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and Abdulrazak Gurnah reviews Navigation of a Rainmaker by Jamal Mahjoub.
Contents
Editorial
Susheila Nasta
Articles
Post-War Nigeria and the Poetry of Anger
J O J Nwachukwu-Agbada
Presidentialism in Lusaka and Harare
Stephen Chan
Bessie Head: Two Letters
Charles Sarvan
Exiled Within: Voices from South African Prisons
Anthony D Cavaluzzi
South Pacific Literature: Post-colonialism and Post Modernism
Rod Edmond
Recent Educational Changes and Ethnic Minorities
Mynah Saunders
Interviews
Earl Lovelace
Maya Jaggi
Poetry
Letters
Melvin E Lewis
Love Poems to the Lady of Red Eyes
Ogonna Agu
Learning the Language
Patience Agbabi
Two Poems on First Arriving in Yaba, Lagos
Martin Bennett
Black Ink and Beggar and Politician
Fred D’Aguiar
Fiction
Black Cosmos
Bahadur Tejani
The Sapped Guinness
Dayo Okunlola
The Party
Iyamide Hazeley
Review Essay
The Poet Lied - Odia Ofeimun
What the Madman Said - Obiroa Udechukwu
Wednesday is a Colour - Femi Oyebode
Stewart Brown
Reviews
English, August: An Indian Story - Upamanyu Chatterjee
The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
Cathy Cundy
Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction - Neil Lazarus
David Richards
Guyana Dreaming: The Art of Aubrey Williams - Anne Walmsley, ed
Louis James
Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
Maya Jaggi
Navigation of a Rainmaker - Jamal Mahjoub
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Women and Revolution in Nicaragua - Helen Collinson, ed
Jan Shepherd
