Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
Vaneisa Walsh on one of greatest fast bowlers of all time; James Ferguson on a controversial Martiniquan writer and Simon Lee on safari in the Suriname bush. Plus the latest in Caribbean music, sports, business and all the rest.
The Basseterre beat
The St Kitts Music Festival is becoming one of the Caribbean’s most attractive music events. Patricia Meschino reports from this year’s venue in Basseterre
The comic, the thief and the Commissioner of Police
Simon Lee learns that comedy can be dead serious
Patrick Chamoiseau: Return of the Creole
James Ferguson talks to the novelist Patrick Chamoiseau whose controversial ideas have fuelled a raging debate on Martinique’s future
Natalie Reis: flamenco flame
Mark Meredith talks to a Trinidadian who found her feet in Australia — teaching flamenco
The beating heart of Suriname
Diverse in people and culture, Suriname is an undiscovered treasure of the Amazon. Simon Lee explores
Gateway to liberty
Jeremy Taylor on Ellis Island, the place where the American experience began for so many thousands of people
Considering Courtney Walsh
Younger, fitter men baulk at the pressure. The walls of West Indies cricket tumble around him. But Courtney Walsh, at 36 going on 37, remains as unstoppable as one of his own devastating deliveries. Vaneisa Baksh contemplates the brilliant career of the West Indies’s former captain and top wicket-taker
Turning point
James Ferguson on In The Castle Of My Skin, George Lamming’s masterpiece about a civilisation in the throes of social revolution
