| Winter 2005 |
Africa 05 |
| Susheila Nasta |
Editorial |
5 |
| Segun Afolabi |
Fiction: In the Garden |
7 |
| Ranka Primorac |
Blood on the Sand: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Zimbabwean Tradition |
11 |
| Yannick Marshall |
Bayakou and other poems |
17 |
| James Currey |
Publishing Bessie Head: Memories and Reflections |
19 |
| Chika Unigwe |
Fiction: Possessing the Secret of Joy |
27 |
| Lizzy Attree |
Already Falling Apart? Phaswane Mpe, Kabelo ‘Sello’ Duiker and Yvonne Vera |
30 |
| Nisha Jones |
Interviews Abdulrazak Gurnah |
37 |
| Brian Chikwava |
Fiction: Zesa Moto Muzhinji |
43 |
| Anthony Downey |
Art: Curating Africa: ‘ Africa Remix’ and the Categorical Dilemma |
47 |
| Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi |
Poems: memories of Ibadanand Interview |
56 |
| Nana Wilson-Tagoe |
Literary Prizes and the Creation of Literary Culture: Judging African Literature in Pan-Commonwealth and Pan-African Competitions |
58 |
| Tolu Ogunlesi |
Fiction: Never Send Your Babies Out Nameless |
62 |
| Matt Kibble |
The African Writers Series Reborn: An Electronic Edition |
66 |
| Caroline Rooney |
Obituary: Yvonne Vera |
69 |
| Reviews |
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| Stephanie Newell |
Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism by Biodun Jeyifo |
71 |
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Calibrations: Reading for the Social by Ato Quayson |
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‘Season of the Desert Flowers: Contemporary Women’s Poetry from Northern Nigeria’, in New Women’s Writing in African Literature: ALT by Aderemi Raji-Oyelade |
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| Emily Wroe |
Burrow by Manzu Islam |
74 |
| Deirdre Osborne |
Elmina’s Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah |
76 |
| Felicity Hand |
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah |
78 |
| Oyeniyi Okunoye |
Palavers of African Literature: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 1 Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, eds |
79 |
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African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honour of Bernth Lindfors Vol 2 Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, eds |
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| Kathleen Starck |
Life Mask by Jackie Kay |
81 |
| John Masterson |
Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah , Derek Wright, ed |
82 |
| Christine Matzke |
A History of Theatre in Africa Martin Banham, ed |
84 |
| Books Received |
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86 |
| Among the Contributors |
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87 |
