Introduction: Reinscribing Nuruddin Farah in African literature
Abstract
The commissioning of a theme issue on the work of Farah in a South African literary journal therefore is
noteworthy both in African continental and world literature contexts. Commemorating Farah’s career in Tydskrif
vir Letterkunde may be seen as an attempt at a reconsideration of Farah’s position in African literature, and an acknowledgement
of the possible reconfiguration of Farah as a South African writer, in addition to his position as a
“Somali” diasporic writer.