
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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Read Juleus Ghunta’s work, shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
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.
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.
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 striking poem by Vasiliki Albedo, after one of van Gogh’s seminal artworks.
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.