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SOME FIFTEEN YEARS ago, a group of Pakistani women embarked on an experimental journey that was to become a...

SHE HAS THE most recognisable face in contemporary Western history and she’s almost within my reach. The longest-reigning British...

and the bones are begging to be let loose with their drums and handbells, with their tales of the sea at...

By Gaiutra Bahadur

UBUNTU IS A word that makes me cringe. You might also know it as obuntu or unhu. It comes...

By MK Suubi

MY GRANDFATHER WAS once in jail. As a kid, I’d pronounce this with a little flush of pride. My grandpa!...

By Annie Zaidi

WHEN I WAS eight years old I visited South Africa, my dad’s homeland, for the first time. I’ll never...

By Anna Kessel

HE TOLD ME he’d meet me at the corner of the station where Citibank had a small office. ‘I’ll be...

LSS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1 WE ARE SHORT and invisible men. Oriental red. Iron-rail thin. Short for men in...

By Kevin Eze

CAROLINA THEY USED HIS face on the Facebook profile. When he sent me a friend request, I accepted because he...

By Sharon Millar

‘THE QUEEN’S GONNA pass over Charlie and hand over the Crown to William,’ Chickee said to Buzz. ‘Poor Old...

If a Sovereign is a gold coin worth one pound sterling, then The Crown is something you put on...

By Joshua Ip

Here’s to those postcolonial Bards in white flannels wielding the willow like their consonants and vowels, spicing the English tongue with...

By John Agard