Kambule: on morning ground | Snapshot By Attillah Springer | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) Early each Carnival Friday morning, before dawn breaks, crowds assemble at Piccadilly Greens in east Port of Spain for a re-enactment of a key event in the history of Trinidad — and of Carnival itself. Attillah Springer gives an intimate account of Kambule, when the spirits of the ancestors are invoked in a ritual of memory, story, song, and resistance
The Mighty Shadow | Icon By Attillah Springer | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) Attillah Springer writes a letter to T&T’s late calypsonian-philosopher
Every Trinidad Roach March ever — and our top 10 By Caribbean Beat, Philip Sander and Attillah Springer | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) Of the eighty-plus songs that have won the official Road March title at Trinidad Carnival, some are little remembered, some have become “back-in-times” favourites, and a few are considered landmarks — whether for their musical qualities or for trends they ushered in. Here are all the recorded Trinidad Carnival Road March winners from 1930 up to 2019 — and our picks for an all-time Road March top ten
Word of mouth (March/April 2015) By Philip Sander, Attillah Springer and Kellie Magnus | Issue 132 (March/April 2015) The politics behind Trinidad’s Good Friday bobolees, Guyana’s Rupununi Rodeo, and the wrongs and rights of Jamaica Carnival
Word of mouth (January/February 2015) By Judy Raymond, Attillah Springer and John Robert Lee | Issue 131 (January/February 2015) Trinidad’s stickfighting season, a new film about the history of steel pan, and St Lucia’s week of Nobel celebrations
Lesley Ann Noel: keeping it chic By Attillah Springer | Issue 82 (November/December 2006) Trinidadian Lesley Ann Noel creates ethnic lifestyle chic with sustainable designs from around the world
Bishop’s girls don’t cry By Attillah Springer | Issue 82 (November/December 2006) At the end of a love affair, Attillah Springer wonders whether Bishop’s girls can really have tabanca. Blame it on her alma mater . . .
Carifesta IX: celebrating ourselves By Attillah Springer | Issue 81 (September/October 2006) In late September, Trinidad and Tobago will host the ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts and Culture, Carifesta IX
Masman: Peter Minshall By Nicholas Laughlin, Attillah Springer and Georgia Popplewell | Issue 79 (May/June 2006) Peter Minshall has been one of the most controversial and influential Trinidadian artists of the last thirty years
Have her cake and eat it | Classic By Attillah Springer | Issue 160 (November/December 2019), Issue 76 (November/December 2005) Attillah Springer on the world’s best black cake — her granny’s. Originally published in 2005, this Beat classic was reproduced in the November/December 2019 issue
Meggie 101 | Classic By Attillah Springer | Issue 151 (May/June 2018), Issue 67 (May/June 2004) What is a meggie? Attillah Springer explains. Originally published in 2004, this Beat classic was reproduced in the May/June 2018 issue
Azonto Lessons By Attillah Springer | Issue 123 (September/October 2013) It’s Trinidadian writer Attillah Springer’s first time in Ghana. Why does it feel so familiar?
“WE GOING ON THAT?” By Attillah Springer | Issue 74 (July/August 2005) Attillah Springer goes to Switzerland and conquers her fear of heights
London is the place By Attillah Springer | Issue 117 (September/October 2012) For Attillah Springer, Trinidad is home — but London is a place as special as it is hard to define
