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A Symposium on the Work of Nuruddin Farah

For the first time TheJournal of Commonwealth Literature devotes the whole of the Symposium to a non-Commonwealth writer. Nuruddin Farah from Somalia has now gained an international reputation as one of the formative forces in the development of contemporary African fiction. This collection of articles on his work, marking a rare foray by JCL outside its Commonwealth purview, takes stock of a writer who challenges conventional notions concerning the inter-connections of politics and fiction.