Volume 34, Number 4, November 2019
1984-2019
35th Anniversary Issue: Wasafiri 100
‘An Island Full of Voices’: Writing Britain Now
| Susheila Nasta |
Editorial: ‘Handing on the Torch’
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| Maya Jaggi
Jackie Kay |
Lead Essay: The Art of Prescience
Poem: At the Bottom of the Spanish Steps |
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Imtiaz Dharker |
Poem: Dear Next-Door
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| Kerry Young
John McLeod |
Fiction: Tomorrow is Another Day
When Memories Fade: Remembering Anti-Racism in Contemporary Black British Writing
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| Su Andi
Bidisha |
Poems: When I was little I had Shirley Temple Curls, I want to write something Political, Holding hands with the past, and others
The Challenges of Writing in Britain
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| Diana Evans |
Fiction: On Ordinary People
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| Daljit Nagra |
Poem: Jaan Jalebi |
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| Razia Iqbal
Bill Schwarz |
Belonging, Colonialism and Arrival: Abdulrazak Gurnah Talks to Razia Iqbal
Literature and Terror
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| Fred D’Aguiar |
Poem: Calypso |
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Chika Unigwe |
Fiction: The Weight of Love
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| Elizabeth Robles |
Collage and Recollection: Three Black British Artists
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| Pacale Petit
Hamid Ismailov |
Poems: Baghwa, Chital Girl
Fiction: Michael, Whose Name Was Sarı
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Susheila Nasta |
‘An Island is a World’: One to One with Romesh Gunesekera |
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SPECIAL SECTION |
Writing Britain and the World: 35 Writers on 35 Years of Wasafiri |
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Winnie M Li |
Different Britains
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| Alison Donnell |
Interview: ‘Writing of and for Our Time’: Bernardine Evaristo Talks to Alison Donnell
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| Moniza Alvi |
Poems: From Fairoz
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| Sharmaine Lovegrove
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Publishing Diversity: A Personal Journey
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| Aamer Hussein |
Fiction: A Convalescence
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| Karen McCarthy Woolf
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Poem: Anthem
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| Elleke Boehmer and Erica Lombard
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Publishing, the Curriculum, and Black British Writing Today |
| Anthony Joseph
Mimi Khalvati |
Fiction: The Frequency of Magic
Poems: The Lesser Brethren, Facades
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| Grace Nichols |
Poems: Tea with Demerera Sugar, Battle
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| Deirdre Osborne
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Institutional Exclusion to Institutionalisation: ‘Decolonising’ Literary Curricula |
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| Review Essay
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| Alastair Niven |
Celebrating an Abundance, 1984-2019: Thirty-five Literary Highlights from Aotearoa to Zimbabwe
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