Introduction: A new world order
The United States. Introduction: The burden of race
Native son by Richard Wright
Giovanni's room by James Baldwin
Fatheralong by John Edgar Wideman
James Baldwin: The lure of Hollywood
Africa. Introduction: Dispatches from Africa
The fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampaté Bâ
Nadine Gordimer: The beat of history
J.M. Coetzee: Life and times of John C.
The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness by Wole Soyinka
The Caribbean. Introduction: The gift of displacement
St. Kitts: 19 September 1983
A small place by Jamaica Kincaid
The Arkansas testament by Derek Walcott
C.L.R. James: Mariner, renegade and castaway
Edouard Glissant: Promiscuities
Patrick Chamoiseau: Unmarooned
Following on: The legacy of Lamming and Selvon
Britain. Introduction: A little luggage
Ignatius Sancho: A Black British man of letters
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Prophet in another land
The pioneers: Fifty years of Caribbean
White teeth by Zadie Smith
Leeds United, life and me
Conclusion: The high anxiety of belonging.
