Follow their footprints
Follow their footprints: T.O.K.'s album Unknown Language finds a new way to talk about contemporary Jamaica
Issue 75 (September/October 2005)
To celebrate the 75th issue of the Caribbean’s favourite glossy magazine we take a look back at some of our favourite covers and explain what they reveal about the Caribbean; we discover why Brooklyn may be the world’s biggest Caribbean city; and profile the Guyanese writer and academic David Dabydeen; plus all our regular departments and a whole lot more.
Ramleela: the big picture
Ramleela, the annual re-enactment of the Hindu epic the Ramayana, photographed by Alex Smailes
Cover stories: celebrating 75 issues of Caribbean Beat
To celebrate the magazine’s 75th issue, seven members of Caribbean Beat’s editorial team choose their favourite covers
Losing it | Last word
Jeremy Taylor remembers the Caribbean Beat editor who went to Venezuela and lost his pants
Rex Nettleford: “Running a university is like running a dance company”
Rex Nettleford, founder of the Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company and former vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies
À la recherche: Monsieur Toussaint by Edouard Glissant
In his play Monsieur Toussaint, Edouard Glissant poignantly captures the complex character and historical dilemma of Haiti’s revolutionary hero
Father Carl Abrahams
Annie Paul remembers Jamaican artist Carl Abrahams and his gentle visions of redemption
Brooklyn crush
With perhaps half a million residents born or with roots in the islands, the New York borough of Brooklyn may be the world’s biggest Caribbean city
Brooklyn Carnival: Breakaway on the Parkway
Photographer Sol McCants captures the energy and spirit of Brooklyn’s Labour Day Carnival
Currency notes
Heard the one about the man who wrote a cheque on the side of a cow? Richard Costas takes a light-hearted look at a serious subject: money. Plus more
Hot hot pot
The recipe couldn’t have looked simpler — so Anu Lakhan set out to make casareep, the key ingredient in Guyanese pepperpot • Plus more
David Dabydeen: Guyana don
The success of David Dabydeen’s 2004 novel Our Lady Of Demerara — winner of the Guyana Prize
This month’s reading and listening picks from the Caribbean
In this issue’s bookshelf and rhythm roundup: Kevin Baldeosingh asks big questions in his novels The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar; six Jamaican poets star in the Calabash Chapbook Series; Two of Trinidad’s talented Blackmans share their music and their spirit; Chalkdust’s Pan Have We DNA scores full points; plus more
What the Caribbean is talking about this month
Barbadian Joscelyn Gardner’s take on white creole post-colonial feminism; plus ceramics in Jamaica, jewellery in Trinidad, shows by Winston Kellman and Peter Doig, and Black to Black at London’s Whitechapel Gallery
