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There Was Never Enough Salt in the Kitchen by Juleus Ghunta

Read Juleus Ghunta’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category. 

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A ‘Balanced’ History of Empire: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland and Other Colonial Anti-Colonial Histories

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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On Not Getting a Caird Research Fellowship… by Naomi Foyle

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. 

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Trouble by Jade E Bradford

Read this exclusive extract from Jade E Bradford’s short story, ‘Trouble’, first published in Wasafiri 112: Reimagining Education.

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They Wanted To Write So I Told Them To Dance by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

Read Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa’s moving and joyous account of teaching writing through dance and movement in Barbados, and her nuanced articulations of culture and identity, plus an exclusive poem.

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Pedagogies of Defiance by Sita Balani

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.

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My mother tells her sister you have your husband and I have my flowers by Vasiliki Albedo

Read this striking poem by Vasiliki Albedo, after one of van Gogh’s seminal artworks.

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‘Rediscovering Self, Race, and Class Through Cultural Translation’: An Interview with Will Harris by Jennifer Wong

Read an excerpt from an interview between Will Harris and Jennifer Wong, first published in Wasafiri 111: Translating Lives.

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Islam and Me by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

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.

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