The war after the war | On this day
Thousands of men from the British West Indies enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War, playing a crucial but often thankless role in the Allied victory. And when the fighting was over, another struggle for respect and recognition began — feeding a new wave of self-determination in the Caribbean. James Ferguson remembers the events of a century ago that set it all in motion
Walter Tull — over the line | On this day
A century ago, as the First World War drew to a close, a Barbadian-British man named Walter Tull was killed on the battlefield. He was one of many thousands dead in the “Flanders clay,” but also unique: as James Ferguson writes, Lieutenant Tull was the first officer of colour ever appointed in the British Army, in defiance of race prejudice
On the home front: World War I and the Caribbean
Few of us can have avoided noticing the commemorations of the outbreak of the First World War, and in particular the centenary of...
In Praise of the Caribbean Cigar
My hero is a Cuban called Compay Segundo. He’s 90, has been a musician since just after World War 1, and is on a world tour as I write....
Hail to the Chief
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, by Colin Grant (Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-536794-2, 530 pp) Colin Grant...
The doomed flight of Jesse Seligman
Dozens of flights arrive at and depart from Jamaica’s two international airports every day, bringing thousands of tourists, Jamaicans...
