Maya Jaggi

Aminatta Forna tells Maya Jaggi that Africa scares the West, but that there’s as much reason to be scared in Croatia as in Sierra Leone.

Widely acknowledged as the greatest ­living Arab poet, the ­Syrian-born Adonis is a fiercely ­independent thinker.

Barbara Kingsolver's long-awaited new novel recalls a dangerous era for artists, writes Maya Jaggi.

Maya Jaggi detects echoes of 9/11 in a story about Chinese totalitarianism.

Alaa Al Aswany, author of <i>The Yacoubian Building</i>, has a new novel,<i> Chicago</i>. He speaks to Maya Jaggi.

Maya Jaggi reports from the Cairo book fair on the struggle for freedom of expression.

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has faced criminal charges and even death threats in his native Turkey, yet he refuses to be disillusioned.

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka visited the Hay Cartagena festival in Colombia earlier this year, in a walled Spanish colonial town on the Caribbean coast, children in the streets instantly thought they recognised the black man with leonine grey hair. But they couldn't decide whether he was Kofi Annan or Don King.

It took years for Femi Kuti to win over fans of his father, the Afrobeat legend Fela, writes Maya Jaggi.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel reflects on the Biafra conflict and the effects it had on all Nigerians, writes Maya Jaggi.

Though their concerns are different, the new voices from Africa offer salutary correctives to those who care to listen, writes Maya Jaggi.

A vicious attack upon returning to Kenya after 22 years has not deterred Ngugi wa Thiong'o from exposing despotism. He speaks to Maya Jaggi.