By James Ferguson ● Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
Turning point
The early 1950s were something of a boom time for Caribbean literature. London publishers were scrambling to acquire writers such as...
By James Ferguson ● Issue 41 (January/February 2000)
In the Rain Forest of the Mind
Few places on earth are as remote or mysterious as Guyana’s interior. While the capital Georgetown and the other main settlements cling...
Literature, People, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Ferguson ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
The worlds of Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott could be excused if he felt a twinge of apprehension as he flew to Trinidad in October 1998. He was on his way to launch a...
Engage, Culture, History, United Kingdom, Caribbean Diaspora
By James Ferguson ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
When London was the place
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between, published in 1953. And how...
Engage, History, People, Grenada
By James Ferguson ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
The artist of Carriacou
I cannot really claim to be an art collector. Most of the images that decorate our house are reproductions of one sort or another, usually...
Engage, Culture, History, Jamaica
By James Ferguson ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
On holy ground: Noel Dyer
Hitchhiking, for obvious reasons, seems rather out of fashion these days. It would probably take you all day to get from Oxford, where I...
Engage, Culture, History, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
Faustin Wirkus: for king and country?
More or less exactly a century ago, on 28 July, 1915, the first contingent of United States Marines disembarked in Port-au-Prince to begin...
Engage, Culture, History, People, Jamaica
By James Ferguson ● Issue 133 (May/June 2015)
Out of many: Martin Luther King Jr and Jamaica
When Martin Luther King, Jr, arrived at Jamaica’s Palisadoes Airport fifty years ago, on 20 June, 1965, he was at the peak of his fame....