Two books isn’t enough protection: Britain deports writer #Ishtiyaq_Shukri
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Many of you who are familiar with South African literature know that writer Ishtiyaq Shukri was detained and questioned for over nine hours at Heathrow Airport in London on the.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #deportation #I_See_You #immigration #The_Silent_Minaret
Why I asked for my work to be withdrawn from the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards
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There is a new award just for people from poor countries. I came to know about it when the organisers requested proof of my nationality. My publisher promotes the prize,.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY digest : Blogging gold of 2014
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Over the years we’ve developed a somewhat undeserved reputation as purveyors of angry hatchet-jobs. We do our share of take-downs, but most of our content isn’t really like that, even.....
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Interview with #Ishtiyaq_Shukri on his new novel, “I See You”
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Shukri: “Imagine a world in which the first question you would be asked is not ‘Where are you from?’ but ‘What have you read?’ Why should the borders of the nation state into which I was born forever dictate the boundaries of my being?” In 2006, the first photographs of the systematic torture at Abu […]