Living in hope and history: notes from our century

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions / Salman Rushdie: Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics

Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world?

Turning the page: African writers and the twenty-first century

References: Codes of culture

Lion, the bull, and the tree

Gunter Grass

Dialogue of late afternoon

Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of empire and exile

Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer

How shall we look at each other then? / Mongane Wally Serote: 1959: What is Apartheid?

How not to know the African

Morning in the library: 1975

Heroes and villains

Crack the nut: Future between your teeth

How shall we look at each other then?

29 October 1989

Beautiful day, Com

Mandela: What he means to us

First time

Act two: One year later

Essential document

As others see us

Labour well the teeming earth

Ceaseless adventure / Jawaharlal Nehru: Writer's imagination and the imagination of the state

Writing and being

Living on a frontierless land: Cultural globalization

Our century.