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Maya Jaggi works from London UK & Cape Town. Global Cultural Journalist, Writer, Critic, Artistic Director. @FTLifeArts @nybooks @nytimesarts @guardianreview. Arts & Literature in context on 5 continents Maya Jaggi has over 386 followers on Twitter.
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…
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.
Review: Ignorance: Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher (Faber)
Maya Jaggi meets Noam Chomsky, the founding father of linguistic philosophy and tireless scourge of American imperialism.
