Editors’ Introduction
African-Asian Affinities: Indian Oceanic Expressions and Aesthetics | Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François and Neelima Jeychandran

Convergence
FIELD TRIP
The Indian Ocean Turn: New Perspectives and Approaches from the Field | Neelima Jeychandran, Smriti Srinivas, Pedro Machado, and Bettina Ng’weno

CODEX
Entangled Histories, Relational Methodologies, and Worlding Imaginaries: A Collaborative Review of Amitav Ghosh’s Historical Fictions | Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François, Turni Chakrabarti, Abdur Rahoof Ottathingal, Kirk B. Sides, and Anuj Vaidya

PORTFOLIO
Carved Designs, Thresholds, and Indian Ocean Visual Affinities: The Case of Monkey Heads and Tolla | Janet Marion Purdy

A&Q I
Weaving as “Eternal Penelopes”: Queerness and Intimate Ecologies in an Interview with Ananda Devi | Eric J. Disbro

A&Q II
Race, Racialization, and Anti-racism: Theorizing Blackness and Reimagining the Study of Global Asias | Neelima Jeychandran, Nadine Attewell, Christine Neil Tejedor Vicera, Suzanne Enzerink, Joseph Harris Johnson, and Jenny Chio

Essays
Canvas Adrift: Vamona Navelcar, Artist of the Unframed Ocean | R. Benedito Ferrão and Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar

A South African Imaginary of Maoist China: The Curious Case of Dennis Brutus’s China Poems (1975) | Duncan M. Yoon

Afro-Asian Adjacencies in South Africa’s Long Twentieth Century | Mingwei Huang

“Sound of Friendship”: Music Iconography in Twentieth-Century Africa–China Relations | Ignatius G. D. Suglo