Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. She is author of three monographs: Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (Boydell & Brewer, 2018) and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is at present working on a large scale project on literary activism in contemporary Africa, which explores the ways in which engagement with the literary functions as a mode of social production.
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In the centenary of Red Vienna and the Weimar Republic, Paul Mason looks at radical cities in the past and now.