International Contemporary Writing
We’re pleased to share an exclusive extract from our interview with Cristina Rivera Garza and Sarah Booker, published in our latest issue, Wasafiri 113. In this conversation with Sohini Basak, Rivera Garza talks about the power of poetry, the shared rootedness of reading, and the politics and ethics of language and translation.
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Angelique Golding talks with poet and playwright Inua Ellams on adapting Chekhov’s Three Sisters for the National Theatre and in the context of the Biafran War, his Hausa heritage, the curriculum and his ‘cultural touchstones’, and more.
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 this exclusive extract from Jade E Bradford’s short story, ‘Trouble’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education.
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education, Sita Balani considers the paradoxes inherent in the university’s role and function, and draws upon the past to construct a radical pedagogy of defiance.
Read this moving extract of Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s ‘Islam and Me’, translated from Italian by the author, on immigration, belonging, and Italy’s systematic racism.
