Archive: Global Dispatches

Irenosen Okojie on the innovation of African artists and entrepreneurs working for a better future, in the latest of Wasafiri‘s Global Dispatches.

In the latest of Wasafiri‘s  Global Dispatches series, Dr Swati Arora reflects on CA Davids’ essay, answering with a piece that examines India’s growing Hindu supremacy, the communal language of protest, and how the state’s rhetoric around the Covid-19 pandemic can shore up systems of oppression. 

For Global Dispatches, author and academic Barbara Taylor responds to Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s ‘strangers, dreaming’, interweaving history and experience to interrogate solitude and Covid-19.

For the latest instalment of the Global Dispatches series, author Katherine Agyemaa Agard writes on loneliness, touch, and isolation, examining the ways in which communication and intimacy has shifted under the ongoing pandemic.

As part of our Global Dispatches essay series, novelist C.A. Davids – writing from Cape Town – reflects on justice and inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read reflections on the climate crisis in this response essay to Robbie Arnott’s Warmer Waters—published as part of the Queen Mary Wasafiri Global Dispatches series.

Published as part of the Queen Mary Wasafiri Global Dispatches series, Margarita García Robayo, author of Holiday Heart, reflects on racism, borders and Covid-19.

Read reflections on child-centred research during and post-pandemic in this response essay to Avni Doshi’s ‘Unfamiliar Creatures’—published as part of the Queen Mary Wasafiri Global Dispatches series.