granta 92 - view from africa

The current issue of Granta Magazine of New Writing is no.92 and focuses on the African continent. Titled ' The View From Africa', it includes new fiction from:

Segun Afolabi - Gifted, about a woman's escape with her two children from an abusive husband and loneliness in Japan... and her touching friendship with a Japanese man in her building;

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The Master, narrated by the houseboy of a teacher - is an extract from her novel-in-progress, Half of a Yellow Sun.

Binyavanga Wainaina has written a satirical essay, sending up European 'experts' on Africa, in How To Write About Africa.

There is non-fiction by Adewale Maja-Pierce. Legacies is about his conflicted relationship with his father and his experience of growing up mixed-race, between parents, countries and cultures.

Other contributors include Kwame Dawes, Helon Habila and Moses Isegawa. A review of the current edition is in today's UK Guardian.