Happy Holi
The joyful Hindu springtime festival of Phagwa is captured in Trinidad by writer Pat Ganase and photographer Sean Drakes.
Issue 36 (March/April 1999)
Bursting with colour and vibrancy, see photographs of Holi by Sean Drakes and the results of the second annual photograhy competition take the spotlight. A profile of the Jamaican sculptor Petrona Morrison by Petrine Archer-Straw and one on the prolific film-maker Frances-Anne Solomon by Bruce Paddington round out a series of artistic features. As usual, this issue is packed with information on travel and life in the Caribbean – learn about the Bahamas, ‘Madam Fate’ and all the rest in Caribbean culture inside!
Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System
Bruce Paddington on the career of young Caribbean film-maker Frances Anne Solomon
Sam Selvon: Words of Welcome
Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners captured the lives and aspirations of West Indian immigrants in post-World War II Britain.
Turnin Han: Marcia Douglas’ Madam Fate
Marcia Douglas describes the legacy of survival left behind by generations of Jamaican women, and the inspiration for her novel Madam Fate
