International Contemporary Writing
In this exclusive extract from ‘Season’ by Rebecca Tamás, a slow, moving meditation on ritual and the nonhuman life which opens our spring issue, Wasafiri 113, we see the seasons change – from spring to summer – during the early days of the pandemic.
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 an excerpt from an interview between Will Harris and Jennifer Wong, first published in Wasafiri 111: Translating Lives.
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.
Read this sweeping, evocative extract from Made in Mauritius by Amal Sewhotel, translated from French by Nadiyah Abdullatif.
Read an exclusive extract from Ingrid Persaud’s ‘The Burke Street Chronicles’, first published in Wasafiri 110.
