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In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Kavita Bhanot writes about Sathnam Sanghera’s much-lauded book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, and questions what kind of ‘decolonising’ work the book is really doing by offering what she terms as a ‘balanced’ history of of the violence and exploitation of empire.
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In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Kavita Bhanot writes about Sathnam Sanghera’s much-lauded book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, and questions what kind of ‘decolonising’ work the book is really doing by offering what she terms as a ‘balanced’ history of of the violence and exploitation of empire.
Read Naomi Foyle’s inventive, affective poem, which utilises the act of cataloguing to challenge the legacy of violence and colonialism in the history of Britain.
Read this exclusive extract from Jade E Bradford’s short story, ‘Trouble’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education.
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Edited by Darren Chetty, Angelique Golding, and Nicola Rollock, Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education considers what education means within and beyond the classroom, investigating government intervention and the reclamation and exploration of decolonisation, and addressing the forces of change and continuity in Britain today. Featuring interviews with Inua Ellams, Gary Younge, and Steve Garner; fiction from Durre Shawar and Jade E Bradford; poetry from Salena Godden; life writing from Diane Leedham, and much more, this is an issue not to be missed.
Editorial Where Do We Go From Here?
Interviews Gary Younge; Inua Ellams; Steve Garner
Articles Pedagogies of Defiance; Educational Grief; Diversifying or Decolonising: How Do We Teach Black History?; A ‘Balanced’ History of Empire: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland and Other Colonial Anti-Colonial Histories
Art On Art and Friendship: Expanding What Relation Can Be
Fiction Jade E Bradford; Durre Shahwar;
Poetry Marvin Thompson; Bakita Kasadha; Salena Godden
Life Writing Diane Leedham
Review Essay: The Past – and Future – of Black Britishness in Children's Books
Reviews Lisa Allen Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead; Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Unbury Our Dead With Song; Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Writing the Camp
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LATEST NEWS
We are pleased to be opening the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for submissions until 30 June 2023.
Wasafiri is hiring a dynamic new Digital Co-Ordinator to join our team.
Wasafiri is excited to announce an autofiction workshop series, which comprises two online writing workshops tutored by our 2022/2023 Writer-in-Residence Durre Shahwar.
