Topic Tag: World War II

Culture, Literature, History, Haiti

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,...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle

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...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Barbados

“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...

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Culture, Arts, United Kingdom

London calling

When we think of the surge of literary creativity that occurred in the English-speaking Caribbean immediately after World War Two, the...

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Culture, Arts, People

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...

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