
Wasafiri Issue 114 [PRE-ORDER]
Wasafiri 114, guest edited by Henghameh Saroukhani and John McLeod, considers Windrush: Writing the Scandal. The lead feature comes from Gary Younge, while our interviews for this issue are with Caryl Phillips and Hazel V Carby. You can also expect our usual range of fiction, art, life writing, poetry, and reviews.
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Editorial A Loss of Innocence
Lead Feature Gary Younge
Articles Claiming Space in a Hostile Environment: Journeys of Migration; Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space
Interviews Hazel Carby; Caryl Phillips
Art The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers
Fiction Ira Mathur
Poetry James Goodwin; Hannah Lowe; Momtaza Mehri; Roger Robinson
Life Writing Zita Holbourne
Review Essay: 'Penguinising' Black Britain
Reviews Natasha Brown, Assembly; Tony Fairweather, Twenty-Eight Pounds and Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story; Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
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A Loss of Innocence
Henghameh Saroukhani and John McLeod
Lead Feature
Making News: Notes on a Scandal
Gary Younge
Articles
Claiming Space in a Hostile Environment: Journeys of Migration
Emily Zobel Marshall
Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space in Recent British Film
Agnes Woolley
Life Writing
Beyond and Before the Scandal: Stories from an Activist on the Frontlines
Zita Holbourne
Interviews
‘Looking in the Other Direction’: Caryl Phillips and John McLeod In Conversation
John McLeod
Hazel V Carby In Conversation: ‘You Cannot Accept Their Terms’
Henghameh Saroukhani
Art
The Axe Forgets, But the Tree Remembers
Alberta Whittle
Fiction
Black Man on the Run
Ira Mathur
Poetry
Shuffle, Slap; Guest Talk; Paperwork; Deportation Blues
Hannah Lowe
Citizen 1; Invitation
Roger Robinson
Who Go, Who Owe
Momtaza Mehri
Meridian Walk
James Goodwin
Review Essay
‘Penguinising’ Black Britain
Britons Through Negro Spectacles – A B C Merriman-Labor
Sequins for a Ragged Hem – Amryl Johnson
My Fathers’ Daughter – Hannah-Azieb Pool
Azad Ashim Sharma
Reviews
Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica – Luke de Noronha
Evie Lewis
The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain’s Caribbean Empire – Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and David Dabydeen
Kate Houlden
Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story – Tony Fairweather
Ana Garcia-Soriano
Assembly – Natasha Brown
Arya Thampuran
Zo and the Forest of Secrets – Alake Pilgrim
When We Were Birds – Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Desirée Seebaran
Convival Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa – Tina Steiner
Charne Lavery
Wild Fires – Sophie Jai
What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You – Sharma Taylor
Valerie L Popp
England’s Green – Zaffar Kunial
Fahad Al-Amoudi