Culture, Literature, History, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 33 (September/October 1998)
The Fire This Time
Si ou gen youn sous k ap ba-w dlo, ou pa koupe pye-bwa kot. “If you have a stream that gives you water,” runs the Haitian proverb,...
By James Ferguson ● Issue 34 (November/December 1998)
Don’t Leave Home Without It
The year was 1921. Ireland had just been partitioned. Adolf Hitler had just become head of the Nazis in Germany. The US Marines were...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Barbados
By James Ferguson ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
“Little England behind you”
How does it feel to be colonised, to be a colonial subject? Happily, few of us under the age of 50 know or will ever know, for we live in...
By Philip Nanton ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
London calling
When we think of the surge of literary creativity that occurred in the English-speaking Caribbean immediately after World War Two, the...
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 64 (November/December 2003)
Rex Dixon: Surprising himself
London during the Second World War was not the most idyllic place or time to spend early childhood. Rex Dixon, born in the city at the...