This bumper collaborative issue includes interviews with Booker Shortlisted author Maaza Mengiste, New Daughters of Africa's Patience Agbabi, Leone Ross, Irenosen Okojie, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, and Merky Books Prize Winner Hafsa Zayyan. For the fiction fans, we have brilliant new writing from Ishmael Beah, Rémy Ngamije, and Ayesha Harruna Attah. We delve into the histories across the continent, with essays on Somali oral storytelling, and the history of Kenyan Asians. And for those who want a good reading recommendation, we have a huge range of reviews of books.

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