Author: James Ferguson

Literature, Reviews

Turning point

The early 1950s were something of a boom time for Caribbean literature. London publishers were scrambling to acquire writers such as...

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Literature, Reviews, Guyana

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...

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Literature, People, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Engage, Culture, History, United Kingdom, Caribbean Diaspora

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...

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Engage, History, People, Grenada

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...

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Engage, Culture, History, Jamaica

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...

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Engage, Culture, History, Haiti

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...

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Engage, Culture, History, People, Jamaica

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....

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