Wasafiri 46: Africa 05
This issue of Wasafiri includes a range of writing from the African continent, and discussions on the state of contemporary literature in Africa, with a close look at its literary prizes.
Read articles on literary prizes and African literature, as well as prize-winning fiction, poetry, reviews, and an interview.
Contents
Editorial
Susheila Nasta
Articles
Already Falling Apart? Phaswane Mpe, Kabelo ‘Sello’ Duiker and Yvonne Vera
Lizzy Attree
Blood on the Sand: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Zimbabwean Tradition
Ranka Primorac
Publishing Bessie Head: Memories and Reflections
James Currey
Literary Prizes and the Creation of Literary Culture: Judging African Literature in Pan-Commonwealth and Pan-African Competitions
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
The African Writers Series Reborn: An Electronic Edition
Matt Kibble
Yvonne Vera: Obituary
Caroline Rooney
Interview
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nisha Jones
Art
Curating Africa: ‘Africa Remix’ and the Categorical Dilemma
Anthony Downey
Fiction
In the Garden
Segun Afolabi
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Chika Unigwe
Zesa Moto Muzhinji
Brian Chikwava
Never Send Your Babies Out Nameless
Tolu Ogunlesi
Poetry
Bayakou and other poems
Yannick Marshall
memories of Ibadanand Interview
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Review Essay
Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism – Biodun Jeyifo
Calibrations: Reading for the Social – Ato Quayson
‘Season of the Desert Flowers: Contemporary Women’s Poetry from Northern Nigeria’, in New Women’s Writing in African Literature. African Literature Today – Aderemi Raji-Oyelade
Stephanie Newell
Reviews
Burrow – Manzu Islam
Emily Wroe
Elmina’s Kitchen – Kwame Kwei-Armah
Deirdre Osborne
Desertion – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Felicity Hand
Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 1 – Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed
African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 2 – Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, ed
Oyeniyi Okunoye
Life Mask – Jackie Kay
Kathleen Starck
Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah – Derek Wright, ed
John Masterson
A History of Theatre in Africa – Martin Banham, ed
Christine Matzke
