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Tate Britain’s survey of art made in response to the colonial empire reflects national pride, as well as a legacy of lingering ambivalence

From skyscrapers to poetry, musician Joanna Marsh is weaving Arab influences into her work

African writers are freer in genre and subject matter but they still face economic barriers and scarcity of publishers at home

Nadeem Aslam, whose The Blind Man’s Garden has just been published, says many ‘9/11s’ have torn through Pakistan and its women

Tash Aw, whose novels have travelled from British Malaya to Indonesia and now to Shanghai, holds no illusions of a homogenous Asian narrative

The author of ‘The Hired Man’ is amazed by how little it takes for people to turn evil, or just look away — and stay in denial after that

Two London exhibitions showcase contemporary artists with links to Beirut, exploring memory in a country still coming to terms with a war seen as unresolved

Lusophone Africa’s most successful writer discusses his hopes for conservation after the death of Cecil the lion, and his memories of Mozambique’s bloody civil war