Author: James Ferguson

Culture, Travel, Lifestyle

Don’t Leave Home Without It

The year was 1921. Ireland had just been partitioned. Adolf Hitler had just become head of the Nazis in Germany. The US Marines were...

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Culture, Sports

More than Life or Death: CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary

It was Bill Shankley, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, who once famously said that football wasn’t really a matter of life or...

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Culture, Literature, Reviews, United Kingdom

Sam Selvon: Words of Welcome

London in the post-war 1940s was a far cry from the “cool Britannia” of half a century later. Rationing was still in force, choking...

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Culture, Business, People, Jamaica

Ian Randle: the accidental publisher

Let me declare an interest at this point. I know Ian Randle fairly well, have stayed at his home in Kingston, think of him as a friend as...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Haiti

The Nightmare Republic

Few novels have captured the atmosphere of a place quite as powerfully as Graham Greene’s The Comedians (1966). The place in question is...

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Culture, Literature, Arts

Domino Effect

What do all Caribbean islands have in common? A shared history, perhaps? A common taste in food? Beaches and sunshine? No, much more...

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Culture, Music, Arts, United Kingdom

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice

For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Barbados

“Little England behind you”

How does it feel to be colonised, to be a colonial subject? Happily, few of us under the age of 50 know or will ever know, for we live in...

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