Archive: interview

In this interview, Wasafiri sat down with the winner of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Idza Luhumyo.

Read a Q&A with Jack Rutherford, Wasafiri‘s CHASE-funded editorial intern, on his time at the magazine and advice for upcoming students.

An interview with 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize judges Mary Jean Chan and Preti Taneja.

Read this interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur, writer and translator of Love in the Big City.

In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 109, Adrija Dey interviews Sara Ahmed, discussing Ahmed’s experience of writing her book Complaint!, and the larger process of gathering testimonies, being a ‘feminist ear’, and working to advocate for others and oneself from an intersectional perspective.

In this conversation between Wasafiri Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and novelist Daisy Hildyard, both writers reflect on the way that the climate emergency has affected and shaped their work, considering the complexities and connections of capitalism, craft, and individual responsibilities.

Gloria Wekker, author of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, talks with Elif Lootens and Sigrid Corry about decolonisation and racism in the Netherlands.

In this interview, Sabba Khan talks about her graphic memoir ‘The Roles We Play’, alongside questions of identity, culture, family and belonging.

In this excerpt from Issue 108, Rachel Gregory Fox interviews Kamila Shamsie and Ahdaf Soueif on Islamic art, writing, and the act of curation.