{"id":265346,"date":"2008-10-23T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/10\/23\/new-farafina\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:45","slug":"new-farafina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/10\/23\/new-farafina\/","title":{"rendered":"New Farafina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I hadn&#8217;t heard of <em>Farafina<\/em> until seeing it referenced on Laila Lalami&#8217;s blog. Focused on African culture, each issue combines &#8220;everything from photo essays to cartoons, art interviews to political exposes, narrative essays to short stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/farafinamagazine.com\/f15\/index.php\">latest issue,<\/a> guest edited by Laila Lalami, is called &#8220;Remapping Africanness&#8221; and contains a number of interesting pieces. <\/p>\n<p>From Laila&#8217;s editor&#8217;s note:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So it seems that North Africa is excluded\u2014and occasionally also excludes itself\u2014from considerations of Africa, in all its wondrous ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity. In this issue of Farafina magazine, I want to reclaim North Africa for Africa. In his article \u201cRemapping Africanness\u201d, the novelist and academic Anouar Majid shows how North African and sub-Saharan novels in fact share many common themes and concerns. The Rabat-based lawyer and activist Karim Kettani writes about a forgotten chapter of African history\u2014a time when people across the continent shared the same political goals. I am also delighted to include Nouri Gana\u2019s review of Nouri Bouzid\u2019s Akher Film. Professor Wa\u00efl Hassan has kindly allowed this magazine to reproduce his introduction to the new African Writers Series edition of Tayib Salih\u2019s masterpiece, <em>Season of Migration to the North.<\/em> The featured fiction in this issue is an excerpt from Hisham Matar\u2019s novel, <em>In The Country of Men,<\/em> which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2006. Mathew Shenoda has contributed a lovely poem, and Hoda Mana, Simona Schneider and Alex Yera have supplied the many photographs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I hadn&#8217;t heard of Farafina until seeing it referenced on Laila Lalami&#8217;s blog. Focused on African culture, each issue combines &#8220;everything from photo essays to cartoons, art interviews to political exposes, narrative essays to short stories.&#8221; The latest issue, guest edited by Laila Lalami, is called &#8220;Remapping Africanness&#8221; and contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[7106,1836,15676,1646],"class_list":["post-265346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-african-literature","tag-cwp","tag-farafina","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265346\/revisions\/325346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}