Embark, Music, Reviews, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 164 (May/June 2021)
Playlist (May/June 2021) | Music reviews
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring new music by Anthony Joseph; Delgres; various artists on Project Spotlight; and Annicia Banks
Embark, Literature, Reviews, Guadeloupe, Haiti, United States
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 163 (March/April 2021)
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of Inheritance: The Story of a West Indian Family by Ian McDonald; of colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard; My Mother’s House by Francesca Momplaisir; and The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, People, Guadeloupe
By Shereen Ali ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 159 (September/October 2019)
Kelly Sinnapah Mary: Riddles of survival | Portfolio
Working across mediums, Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary creates images with a fairytale quality, mingling cruelty and enchantment, as she explores postcolonial dilemmas and the resistance of self-invention, writes Shereen Ann Ali
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | Wish you were here (January/February 2020)
Postcards from the Caribbean’s most extraordinary places
Embark, Community, Environment, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, St. Barts, St. Martin, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
After the storm | Perspective
For people of the Caribbean, the start of the annual hurricane season in June is a time of watchfulness, if not anxiety. Hurricanes are a...
Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Guadeloupe, The Bahamas
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Secret islands: the “undiscovered” Caribbean
There are more than seven thousand different islands in the Caribbean, according to the reference books, most of them tiny by any standard....
Culture, Music, Arts, Guadeloupe
By Lorraine O'Connor ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
Kassav: Doctor Zouk
Drums roll. A powerful voice shouts through the microphone: “Zzet veni pou” What did you come for? And the whole place seems to...