Haitian art: rising from the ruins
One of the most harrowing images to have emerged from the January 2010 earthquake which shattered the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, with...
Pierre Toussaint: from slavery to sainthood
The search for the Caribbean’s first saint began 70 years ago, in December 1941, in a dark and overgrown New York churchyard. Leading the...
Christophe’s Citadelle
It is one of Caribbean history’s cruellest ironies that its first, and possibly most important, revolution degenerated so quickly into...
Ian Thomson: Hooked on Haiti
Ian Thomson arrived for an interview on a wet November Sunday, with a knapsack on his back. His book on Haiti, Bonjour Blanc, had recently...
Winston Branch: The Precarious Life of Art
“You’re standing on my paaaaaaintings,” wailed Winston Branch indignantly. I looked down. What I had perceived to be a...
Toussaint Triumph
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution C. L. R. James (Allison & Busby) That The Black...
