Essays exploring the recurring theme of exile in the work of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, Catherine Acholonu and Buchi Emecheta. Index, 152pp. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852555229

Granta is a magazine of new writing. Issue 80 includes Used to be Great Friends by C.J. Driver, Scouting for Boys by Paul Theroux, Two Farms: One Black, One White by Lindsey Hilsum, and Another Age by Helon Habila. 256pp, UK. GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD.

Fresh voices from the continent, including: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Daniel Bergner, Helon Habila, Moses Isegawa, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Sanuta Mofokeng, John Ryle, Geert van Kesteren, Ivan Vladislavic, Binyavanga Wainaina, Kwame Dawes and Nadine Gordimer. Col & b/w photos, 256pp, UK. GRANTA.

CONTENTS: Building on the Legacies of the 20th Century by Ernest N. Emenyonu; Challenges for Writers & Critics by Charles Nnolim; New Dimensions for African Literature in the 21st Century by Thomas Hale; New Trends in the Sierra Leonean Novel by Eustace Palmer; Transcultural Identity in African Narrative of Childhood by Richard Priebe; The Marks Left on the Surface: Zoe Wicomb's David's Story by Kenneth W. Harrow; Mothering Daughters: The Other Side of the Story by Monica Bungaro; New Trends in Female Writings in Africa by Iniobong I. Uko; Re-thinking Nation and Narrative in a Global Era: Recent African Writing by Nana Wilson-Tagoe; A Last Shot at the 20th Century Canon by Bernth Lindfors. Plus book reviews. 192pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

A collection of critical articles on topics in modern African women's writing. Writers discussed in this volume include Akachi Ezeigbo, Promise Okekwe, Yvonne Vera, Chinwe Okechukwu, Calixthe Beyala, Ken Bugul, Kekelwa Nyanya, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Lauretta Ngcobo and Zulu Sofola. Also includes articles on Nigerian women's poetry, protest poetry, the role of wives in African fiction and book reviews. Index, 210pp, UK. CURREY PUBLISHERS, JAMES, 0852555245

A journal of new writing from around the world. ONCE UPON A TIME: Autumn/winter 2003 edited by Helon Habila and Tiffany Murray. Includes an interview with Wole Soyinka, poetry by Jean Rhys, and stories by Edwidge Danticat, Francis Wyndham, Shereen Pandit and Kadija Sesay. Notes, x, 169pp, UK. PEN AND INC PRESS, 1902913191

Essays on the issues of language and style in the work of Ayi Kwei Armah, Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Uchenna Ubesie and Wole Soyinka. Index, notes, 182pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852555172

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Issue 10 (Spring 2007). Special Caribbean issue. Selected contents: Spotlight InterSong with Kamau Brathwaite: MaKing ConnXions; new and original short story from Edwidge Danticat; The Poetry of Louise Bennett and the Creolite Movement by Leola Dublin; Publishing Caribbean authors by Katherine Verhagen; In Celebration of John La Rose, told in a new and original prose piece by E.A. Markham. 132pp, UK. SAKS MEDIA.

A magazine of fiction, poetry, essays and reviews of modern African and Diaspora writing. The Summer 2006 edition (issue number 8) includes: 'Spotlight on Chinua Achebe' by Helon Habila; an Extract from the prison memoir of Jack Mapanje; 'The Writing Scene in Zimbabwe' by Blessing Musariri. 132pp, UK. SAKS MEDIA.

In addition to the interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga, as well as an excerpt from her recent novel, 'THE BOOK OF NOT', this issue of TRANSITION includes Caine Prize-winner Binyavanga Wainaina on How to Be an African and photographs taken during the filming of Hannah Rose Shell's documentary on the Haitian second-hand clothing industry, Textile Skin. 168pp, USA. SOFT SKULL PRESS.

Includes works and articles by Tabish Khair, Erna Brodber, Richard Dyer and Margaret Busby. 88pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

Includes articles and works by Caryl Phillips, Aamer Hussein, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Jackie Kay, Chiji Akoma and Jane Bryce, plus interviews with Jamaica Kincaid, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison. 106pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

Includes an interview with Chimamanda Adichie and Helen Oyeyemi, articles on Alexander McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe Novels and contemporary African art criticism, as well as all the reviews, poems and fiction that make Wasafiri a definitive forum for the voices of new writers and makes it a space for serious critical discussion not available elsewhere. 100pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

Issue 43, Winter 2004

This issue of the celebrated journal focuses on world cinema and includes articles on Anna May Wong, new cinema from the Islamic world, Asian cinema culture in Coventry, Nollywood videos, gutter cinema in contemporary India, Pashto horror films in Pakistan and Anand Patwardhan's War and Peace. Also includes reviews of the books Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction, Cherish by Yinka Sunmonu, Night Calypso by Lawrence Scott, and South African Theatre in the Melting Pot by Rolf Solberg. 80pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

Issue 41, Spring 2004

Interviews with Courttia Newland and Jacob Ross, Yinka Shonibare and K.S. Maniam; fiction by Lawrence Scott, Keith Jardim, and S.A. Afolabi (shortlisted for the 2005 Caine Prize); poems by Angus Calder, Satyendra Srivastava, John Mateer, Amy T.Y. Lai, and Virgil Suarez. Also includes reviews of Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru, and KIN: New Fiction by Black and Asian Women. 80pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

Issue 34, Autumn 2001

This issue, dedicated to the representation of travel writing from alternative traditions, includes articles about IIKabbo (Oud Jantje Tooren), a /Xam man and his journey from the Kalahari to Cape Town, challenging the reading of the W.H.I Bleek and Lucy Lloyd's texts about the journey; nineteenth centuy France in the eyes of a Moroccan traveller; and Francisco de Miranda's observations of Boston life in September 1784. Also includes extracts from The Emperor's Babe by Bernadine Evaristo. 80pp, UK. WASAFIRI.

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Issue 21, Spring 1995

Interviews with V.S. Naipaul and Vikram Seth. Also includes articles on British Asians and fictions of Ethnic Space; and reviews of work by Aijaz Ahmad and Fred D'Aguiar. 96pp, UK. WASAFIRI.