One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions / Salmon Rushdie: Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics -- Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? -- Turning the page: African writers and the twenty-first century -- References: Codes of culture -- Lion, the bull, and the tree -- Gunter Grass -- Dialogue of late afternoon -- Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of empire and exile -- Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer -- How shall we look at each other then? / Mongane Wally Serote: 1959: What is Apartheid? -- How not to know the African -- Morning in the library: 1975 -- Heroes and villains -- Crack the nut: Future between your teeth -- How shall we look at each other then? -- 29 October 1989 -- Beautiful day, Com -- Mandela: What he means to us -- First time -- Act two: One year later -- Essential document -- As others see us -- Labour well the teeming earth -- Ceaseless adventure / Jawaharlal Nehru: Writer's imagination and the imagination of the state -- Writing and being -- Living on a frontierless land: Cultural globalization -- Our century.
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