A Passage From India
On May 30, 1845, a small sailing ship of 415 tonnes, the Fatel Rozack, tied up at the lighthouse jetty in Port of Spain, Trinidad after a...
Christopher’s Legacy: Codrington College
Far below, the Atlantic waves crash onto Barbados’s eastern coast. But up here on the hillside, the silence is only broken by the wind,...
Trinidad’s Temple in the Sea
Quarter of a mile off the west coast of Trinidad there stands an extraordinary monument to the human spirit: a magnificent Hindu temple,...
Toussaint Triumph
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution C. L. R. James (Allison & Busby) That The Black...
Jean Rhys: The Madwoman in the Attic
The publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 was, almost literally, a return from the dead for its 76-year-old author, Jean Rhys. In the...
The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...
The Pilgrim’s Way
On a dusty roadside in northern Spain: two journalists and a donkey. Pointed west, towards the setting sun. The story actually begins more...
Fanny Nisbet: Lord Nelson’s West Indian Widow
All the world loves a lover. The love between Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton has passed into the realm of mythology. But what...
