Encounters with James Baldwin

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections, interviews and poetry.

This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and activist who spoke truth to power during the era of the fight for Black civil liberties in the US, and after.

In this literary anthology, over 30 contributors reveal the influence of Baldwin’s thought, speech and writing to their personal journeys and their awareness of the need for social justice.- Introduction by Stella Dadzie

• Three Memories of Baldwin by Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr

• Blackspace by Victor Adebowale

• Talking about Baldwin with Victor Adebowale

• The World is White No Longer by Toyin Agbetu

• Uncle Jimmy’s Calling by Rosanna Amaka

• The Spirit of James Baldwin by Michelle Yaa Asantewa

• Mea Culpa by Eugen Bacon

• Meeting Jimmy Baldwin in Paris by Lindsay Barrett

• Genius as Moral Courage by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Phone Calls by Alan Bell

• Never Make Peace with Mediocrity by Selina Brown

• Searching for the Centennial Man by Michael Campbell

• In a Photograph with James Baldwin by Fred D’Aguiar

• Fires in Our Time by Thomas Glave

• Can I get an Amen, Somebody? by Sonia Grant

• What Kind of World is This? by Zita Holbourne

• The Inspirational Blues by Paterson Joseph

• Letter to My Daughter by Peter Kalu

• James Baldwin Weeps with the Weight of Tiredness by Roy McFarlane

• What’s Love Got to Do with It? by Ronnie McGrath

• Revisiting James Baldwin by Michael McMillan

• Six Degrees of James Baldwin by Tony Medina

• Of James Baldwin and Futures Not Seen by Bill V. Mullen

• The Fire is Now by Nducu wa Ngugi

• If Sonny’s Blues were a Song… by Lola Oh

• Fahrenheit 1492 by Ewaure X. Osayande

• Passing by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

• The Amen Corner by Anton Phillips

• A Higher Calling by Ray Shell

• For Jimmy by SuAndi

• Wherefore, Nuncle? by Tade Thompson

• Letter to My Brother by Patrick Vernon

• James Baldwin and Black British Civil Rights by Tony Warner