Issue 29: Spring 1999
Taking the Cake: Black Writing in Britain
Highlights
| Interviews with David Dabydeen, Maya Jaggi and Jackie Kay. |
| Susheila Nasta and Rasheed Araeen in conversation. |
| Poetry from Leila Aboulela, Elaine Savory, Dorothea Smartt, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Bernardine Evaristo, Janet Kofi-Tsekpo and Mark de Brito. |
| An extract from A Harlot’s Progress by David Dabydeen and short fiction by Romesh Gunesekera. |
| Homi Bhabha’s ‘Manifesto’ for the Reinventing Britain Forum, Caryl Phillips on George Lamming and Sam Selvon and Reeta Chakrabarti on race relations after Stephen Lawrence. |
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Reviews of Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain by Mike and Trevor Phillips, The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera, Infinite Riches by Ben Okri, Lara by Bernardine Evaristo, The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets by Lemn Sissay and Richard Dyer reviews the Chris Ofili Exhibition
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