Wasafiri 56: African Europeans

Interviews with Assia Djebar and Kiemute Okpako

Fiction by Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo, Jamal Mahjoub and Tomáš Zmeškal

Poetry by Agnès Agboton, Bertrand Besigye and Ubax Cristina Ali Farah

Articles on the history of African Europe, Ira Aldridge, French rap and Parisian Negritudes of the 1920s

Reviews of Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon pére, S I Martin's Jupiter Williams and Paul Gilroy's Black Britain: A Photographic History and A Black British Canon? edited by Gail Low and Marion Wynne-Davies

Editorial

African Europeans
Lyn Innes and Mark Stein

Articles

CSI Europe: African Trace Elements. Fragments.
Reconstruction. Case Histories. Motive. Personal.
Bernardine Evaristo

Ira Aldridge in Germany
Bernth Lindfors

‘The Heart of the Black Race’: Parisian Negritudes in the 1920s
Jean Khalfa

‘Ça vient de la rue’: French Rap's Perspective on French Society
Stephanie Decouvelaere

The Not-So-New-Europeans: Migration and Novel Manifestations
Raimi Gbadamosi

Translating the English Canon into Multi-ethnic Italy: Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo’s Rometta e Giulieo
Sabrina Brancato

Fiction

The Moustached Man
Patrice Nganang

Biography of a Black and White Lamb: An Extract, trans. from the Czech by Suzana Dudić
Tomáš Zmeškal

Rometta e Giulieo: An Extract, trans. from the Italian by Imogen Forster
Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo

Last Thoughts on the Medusa
Jamal Mahjoub

Interviews

Interview with Assia Djebar: Filming the Stories of Algerian Women
Ana de Medeiros

Adding Her Voice: An Interview with Branwen Kiemute Okpako
Ekpenyong Ani

Poetry 

Poems, trans. from the Italian by Gil Fagiani, Victoria Offredi Poletto, Giovanna Bellesia and Teresa Palmiero
Ubax Cristina Ali Farah

Poems (in Gun and Spanish, trans. from the Spanish by Maya García de Vinuesa)
Agnès Agboton

Poems, trans. from the Norwegian by John Irons
Bertrand Besigye

Obituaries

Angus Calder (1942 - 2008)
Robert Fraser

Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008)
Jean Khalfa

Review Essay

The Indian Novel in English: Its Critical Discourse 1934 - 2004 - Dieter Riemenschneider
Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Gita Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Antonia Navarro-Tejero
Mediating Writing in English: German Responses - Bernd-Peter Lange and Mala Pandurang, eds
Ruvani Ranasinha

Reviews

Re/Visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland - Kien Nghi Ha, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai and Sheila Mysorekar, eds
Sara Lennox

May Ayim Award: Erster internationaler schwarzer deutscher Literaturpreis 2004 - Peggy Piesche, Michael Küppers, Ekpenyong Ani, Angela Alagiyawanna-Kadalie, ed
Florian Stadtler

Nulle part dans la maison de mon pére - Assia Djebar
Ana de Medeiros

Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness - Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny and Ludmilla A Trigos, eds
Ksenia Robbe

Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism - Dominic Thomas 
Adele King

‘Black’ British Aesthetics Today - R Victoria Arana, ed
A Black British Canon? - Gail Low and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds
Eva Ulrike Pirker

Jupiter Williams - S I Martin
Karen McCarthy

The Oxford Companion to Black British History - David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones, eds
Anne Spry Rush

Black Britain: A Photographic History - Paul Gilroy
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century - Sara Blair
Helen Mears

Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective - Christine Matzke and Susanne Mühleisen, eds
Eugene McNulty