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Michaela Gasteratou

Himesh Patel

Linda Yohannes

Nikesh Shukla

Border Crossing: Twenty-Something & The Revolutionary T-Shirt

Twenty-Something & The Revolutionary T-Shirt

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A fictional dialogue between Ethiopia and Britain, by Linda Yohannes and Nikesh Shukla.

A groundbreaking fictional dialogue between Ethiopia and Britain: Twenty Something Going Nowhere by Linda Yohannes and The Revolutionary T-Shirt by Nikesh Shukla.

A series of programmes that sets up a unique pairing between writers from countries challenged by refugee and migration issues with short story writers from Britain. Each foreign story was given to a British writer who wrote their own response, in an exchange of fiction that aims to explode myths, explore shared concerns and extend the boundaries of the short story. 

In Twenty Something Going Nowhere by Ethiopian writer Linda Yohannes, a young girl in Ethiopia discovers her teenage idealism isn’t easy to maintain in the harsh reality of working life. The reader is Michaela Gasteratou.

In British writer Nikesh Shukla's response, The Revolutionary T-Shirt, a young man exchanges political naivety for a more complex understanding of injustice. The reader is Himesh Patel.

Linda Yohannes lives and writes in Addis Ababa. She is a winner of the 2012 Burt Award for African Literature and her recent short stories can be read online on www. jalada.org and www.afreada.com. Nikesh Shukla is the author of two novels, Coconut Unlimited and Meatspace, and a number of short stories. He is Editor of the forthcoming The Good Immigrant, and hosts The Subaltern podcast.


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