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A LONG JOURNEY

The History of the Derby West Indian Community Association (DWICA)

2024

The main purpose of this book is to reflect, commemorate and chronicle the contribution of Britain’s pioneering Windrush Generation, particularly those that settled in Derby. It demonstrates the vitality of the Caribbean community and their social, cultural and economic value to the city. It also charts the arrival and challenges facedbythose who migratedfrom theCaribbean.

The Derby West Indian Association (DWIA) was founded in 1955 as ameans to servemembers of the local Caribbean community and to help them settle into a foreign land. In the early 1980s, the Association then established the Derby West Indian Centre and later achieved charitable status in 1989. The word “community” was then added to its name to become the Derby West Indian Community Association (DWICA).

DWICA has been the “catalyst and rock” of the Caribbean community that settled in Derby through the activities it provides and the services it offers. These include education and training, social and cultural activities, recreational facilities, health and well-being services as well as advocacy, representation, the provision of general advice and information and document signing and verification.

This book charts the work of the Association and the work of the many people committed to the Caribbean heritage community and to the celebration of Black culture. It is an informative and unique resource for schools and also the general reader, as well as a source for those interested in the many aspects of Britain’s multiculturalsociety.

It is dedicated to the pioneering members of the Windrush Generation and to those who had the vision and determination to establish such an essential and worthwhile organisation. DWICA continues to serve the needs of their community and to provide a legacyforthe generations tocome. Andthe journeycontinues.

Dr Maurice Odle’s professional life as an academic and senior national, regional and international civil servant intersected with the clash of two powerful economic forces, namely the economic nationalism of the underdeveloped world and the profit maximising operations of foreigntransnationalcorporations.

While developing countries, in recent decades, have significantly increased their capacity for dealing with foreign investment issues and the nexus areas of international trade, finance and transfer of technology, the West has frustrated them in their efforts to bring about fundamental change in international economic relations and in the neo-liberal rules of thegame.

For example, the United Nations initiative(s) of the developing countries with respect to a New International Economic Order (relating mainly to trade) fell apart by the end of the 1970s; intensive negotiations on a Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations were abandoned in the early1990s; and negotiations with respect to ‘Financing for Development’ (that were supposed to usher in a new financial order) continue to be agonisingly slow; policy making remains essentially the preserve of the Washington-based Bretton Woods institutions, liketheIMFandtheWorldBank.

Developing countries have been attempting to diversify their sources of foreign capital, but the USA is pressuring them to not accept investment from China which, paradoxically, is at the same time under a USA-led sanctions embargo designed to prevent that country from acquiring investment (or tradeable goods) with advanced semi-conductor technology. The struggle for a more equitable economic ordercontinues.

In this candid autobiography, Maurice Odle charts his journey from humble beginnings in what was then British Guiana to London, New York, Geneva and back to the Caribbean, and the intractable challenges of operating on the world stage in the interests of the disadvantaged. He presents engaging insights into not only the workings of the global economic system, but also political and social life in generalinthis treasuretrove of rich experiences.

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BLACK LIGHTVOID

DarkVisionsof the Caribbean 2023

In Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean, Marsha Pearce curates a collection of paintings and short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. The anthology casts tropical place in a different light, going beyond what island sunlight renders visible – beyond what we already know, or think we know – to a space in which the imagination offers illumination. The book makes an argument for seeing the Caribbean in the dark. Expanding the discourse on opacity, it proposes darkness as a critical space for Caribbean aesthetic practices; darkness as a space that resists easy, transparent readings of the Other. Pearce asks: What stories lie beyond those experiences lit up by the sun – the light that is a definingfeatureofthe tropics?

Through a dialogic presentation of work by Trinidadian contemporary visual artist Edward Bowen, and short stories by Trinidadian, award-winning writers Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Pearce shapes a journey into the dark and unpredictable. The collection’s ekphrastic format is a call and response experience in which the reader is expected to participate and make meanings – reflecting on self and responding – in the amalgam ofimage and word.

“[A] beautiful and serious work These works are truly of the Caribbean, and yet rarely display any of the usual tropes that might suggest that. The paintings are one of the most significant bodies of work to have been made in the Caribbean region over the last thirty years.”PETER DOIG, contemporary artist

“This rich and beautiful book could not have appeared at a better time, as we eagerly re-engage with our literary arts. We owe Pearce a great debt for assembling a treasure trove of remarkable images by a most enigmatic and gifted artist and stories by daring, accomplished authors who write back to them movingly and surprisingly and always with originality . The result is a unique and important contribution to our 21st century cultural and intellectual life.” MARINA SALANDY-BROWN, Founder and President, Bocas Lit Fest

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108 pages

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THE HOOKOF DESIRE SlaveryandDavid Dabydeen’s ‘Turner’

David Dabydeen’s ‘Turner’ is a long poem of twenty-five sections that takes its inspiration from J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On (1840). Since the poem was first published in 1994, it has been subject to a significant level of critical debate and discussion which continues to the present day. The aim of this book is to bring together a selection of the many articles that have engaged with the poem, and to show how they explore its relationship to the events depictedinthe painting.

Edited with an Introduction by Lynne Macedo, The Hook of Desire contains eleven articles – three of which were specially commissioned for this book – that examine Dabydeen’s work from a number of different perspectives. Some are comparative, considering ‘Turner’ alongside other fictional responses to the infamous Zong incident, whilst others focus on the work’s intertextuality or its exploration of the transformative nature of the sea. A recurrent theme – highlighted by the poem’s fragmentary nature – is the inability of language to represent trauma, or to escape from the influence of past representations. In the present political climate with its focus upon ‘Black Lives Matter’, it seems likely that the powerful legacy of the Zong case, and its many differinginterpretations, willcontinuetoresonate.

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A TROUBLED DREAM

BEACONS OF LIBERATION

In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain following the recruitment drives of such institutions as London Transport and the National Health Service. Many had also served in the British Armed Forces during the war and decided to make Britain their new home. These new arrivals sought a life of prosperity in the “mother country”, but in reality they were often faced with a hostile and unwelcoming environment. Most learnedtolive withthese‘obstacles’andlatersent fortheirfamilies.

A Troubled Dream tells the story of a young married couple whose lives reflect the continuing dilemmas faced by West Indians in English society, while at the same time having to address the conflicts betweenthe older and youngergenerations.

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A collection of fifteen brief biographies of iconic Black leaders and activists who helped to advance the cause of liberty. These individuals, both historic and contemporary, have made significant contributions to the fight for equality and freedom, and their stories continuetoresonate inthe 21st century.

The book serves as a generalintroduction and includes MaryPrince, Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Ira Aldridge, Nanny of the Maroons, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Walter RodneyandBob Marley.

The stories are a testament to the power of human resilience and the importance of fighting for justice and equality. Their legacies continue to inspire people around the world and their stories are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of theBlack experience.

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70 pages Paperback

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEST INDIAN CHURCH

2004

This book offers a comprehensive annotated guide to books and other source materials for the study of Christianity in the Englishspeaking Caribbean. It also includes many similar items relating to neighbouring territories – Spanish, Dutch and French – and to other religious bodies in the Caribbean area. This is a companion volume to Dr Dayfoot’s history, The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492-1962. It also includes materials concerning the forty years since 1962. The bibliography has been compiled over many years in co-operation between two scholars who served churches in the Caribbean. Many others havecontributedinformation andadvice. “Students and teachers of the history of the church in the West Indies have long been without a resource such as the present text provides . . . Not only does this work cover the five hundred years of Christian activity in the West Indies, but it is arranged in a manner which should be of considerable help to researchers.” – Rev. Canon NoelTitus, Codrington College

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Written by the author of the bestseller, To Sir, With Love, this is the tale of the relationship between ayoung girl andhertoy bear.

“Oh Billingsly!” Lisbeth cried, “ I love you just the way you are and I love your earjust the wayit is.”

“That’s fine,” said Billingsly, “so I’ll tell you a secret. It’s only for you. My left ear is for hearing things, all sorts of things. They’re just sounds and are not important to me. But my right ear is for listening. It will open only when someone speaks directly to me, the way you did. When you’re not talking to me it will curl up again. You’re the only person who has ever talked to me and you’re the only person for whom mylistening ear has opened.”

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BLACK IDENTITY IN THE 20th CENTURY

Expressions of the US and UK African Diaspora

2002

The A-Z of Black Footballers in the English Game

1999

Black Identity in the 20th Century is a collection of essays that focus on the various forces of Black identity primarily within the context of the US and the UK in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground by examining Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic in relation to theAfrican Diaspora.

What is also unique is the fact that this volume provides a firm collaboration between Black British and African American scholars. Too often, Black experiences have been viewed in isolation from one another. Black Identity in the 20th Century enables the reader to compare and contrast themes relating to these two important locations. Covering a range of interdisciplinary topics, the book is divided into three interlocking sections. Part One examines PanAfrican philosophy and practice, West Africans in Britain (19001960), and African American political struggle covering the Civil Rights Movement and Black Nationalism; Part Two considers the impact of Afrocentricity in challenging Western intellectual hegemony, the Black intellectual tradition and the role of Afrocentric social work in the UK; and Part Three analyses the complexity and nuances of Black identity in terms of phenotype or physical markers and folklore via prose. It is written in a stimulating and accessible style, and includes contributions from relatively new voices in the fieldof Black Studies as well as distinguishedscholars.

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Published in 1998, Black Pearls documents the careers and achievements of nearly 300 Black footballers playing in the English gameupto1998.

Pele’s “beautiful game” is just as exquisite now as it was in the great man’s heyday – andevenmorecolourfulthan ever.

The cosmopolitan nature of the modern global village is no more effectively illustrated than in the world’s soccer stadiums. And there is, perhaps, no better example of a true meritocracy than on the turf of football’s ‘levelplayingfields’.

The socio-economic or religious background of a football fan has absolutely no bearing or influence on the choice of his or her favourite soccer star. Nowhere is this diversity of choice better illustrated than in the English soccer leagues. And the Black footballer, who was once a rare phenomenon, is now part and parcel of theEnglish game.

Lavishly illustrated, this book includes feature articles on the early pioneers, Africa’s contribution to world soccer and Jamaica’s ‘Reggae Boyz’. Includes 49 full colour & 35 black & white photographic images

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BRITISH RULE IN INDIA DURING THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES

2024

CARIBBEAN CHALLENGES

Sir Shridath Ramphal’s Collected Counsel

This book traces the events that led to the conquest and subjugation of India by the British East India Company during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses on how this trading company was able to use the art of cunning diplomacy, the language of friendship and eventually threat and betrayal to grab Indian territories. The company was able to use its despotic powers to raise revenues to maintain its territorial acquisitions, its large army and all its servants and, inturn, helptosustaintheBritish Empire.

British Rule in India During the 18th and 19th Centuries does not seek to provide an exhaustive history of India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but to describe the economic and social consequences of British rule during this period. It examines how the British were able to play off one Indian ruler against another in order to entice each into the British spider’s web. Once a state fell into this trap, theBritish were able to useits resources toentrapanother.

The book concludes by not only describing the long lasting damage and pain that the British had inflicted on the people of India during this time, but also the beneficial things the British had bestowed on India, whichcametohave alasting effect ontheIndianpeople. 216 x 138mm 232 pages Paperback

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“The various presentations by Sir Shridath Ramphal compiled in this volume not only reflect a sustained eloquence and analytical brilliance but offer important philosophical insights into a number of critical issues, such as federation, law and diplomacy leadership, external trade negotiations and the environment ... I am confident ... that (they) ... will stimulate discussion on ... issues relevant to the achievement of the objectives of Caribbean integration. I therefore recommend it to policy makers, the academic community and members of the general public”. From the Foreword by Professor Denis Benn

“As a Community we are adrift in the Caribbean Sea as if without chart or compass, making a virtue of being blown by winds of fortune – even when they blow us apart. We blame ambition, not ourselves, when we fall short of goals we set. We make a fetish of pragmatism anda piousness of vision.

The people of the Caribbean do care for CARICOM and all that it implies; but caring alone will not suffice to secure it if they do not ensure that their leaders act as if they do as well. In 1975, the challenge was to stay on course. In 2012, the challenge is to get back on it. Fault lies not in our charts, or even in the elements; it lies essentially in ourselves; but this, whiletroubling, must alsomean that correctionis not beyondpossibility or hope.”SSR

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Classic Caribbean Cooking is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the people of the Caribbean. From the first Amerindian tribes, to the African, European, Asian and Middle Eastern settlers, their influence over the centuries has created a unique cuisine that owes as muchtoother parts of the world as it does tothe Caribbean. With more than 300 historical and contemporary recipes gathered from throughout the region, Classic Caribbean Cooking provides a unique culinary insight into exquisite starters, sumptuous main courses, mouth-watering desserts anddelicious drinks.

Clear and easy to follow instructions serve to introduce such delights as Pepperpot, Ackee & Saltfish, Mauby, Run Down, Breadfruit Porridge, Rice & Peas, Mettai, Fried Flying Fish, Roti, and Jerk Pork, tonamebut afew.

From baking to frying, roasting to grilling, Classic Caribbean Cooking is abook foreveryone. Includes fullindextorecipes

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Angry with their religions and the wrongdoings of so many clerics, two young people decide to address the status quo. Set in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital, Port-of-Spain, Nathan John and Miriam Suielman seek to attract many others to their cause and come up with the notion to stage and host a conference. The resulting event, entitled‘Conference of the Un-Godly’, draws participants from across the globe.

In this cauldron of religious fervour, a spotlight is not only turned upon the abuses within the church but also the subject of religion as a whole. And it is within this arena that ‘sinners’ and ‘saints’ alike baretheirsouls.

For Nathan and Miriam, the conference is an illuminating spectacle. They had arrived as unknowns, but their overnight success has createda demandforthem from organisations the worldover.

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Out of the three leading black figures in eighteenth-century England (Sancho, Equiano and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well known. Yet he was the most radical, campaigning not just against theslavetradebut for a‘totalabolition of slavery’.

DAUGHTER OF THE GREAT RIVER 2020

In 1770, at the age of thirteen, he was kidnapped by his ‘own countrymen’ in Africa and sold into slavery. After enduring the middle passage, he worked on a plantation in Grenada and other parts of theWestIndies.

In 1772 Cugoano was brought to England where he gained his freedom. By the mid-1780s he was employed as a servant by the court painters Richard and Maria Cosway in Schomberg House, Pall Mall. It was here, in 1787, that Cugoano published his book Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the SlaveryandCommerceof the HumanSpecies.

By then he had already begun his letter writing campaign against the slave trade by writing to the Prince of Wales. Along with other ‘sons of Africa’, including Equiano, Cugoano also wrote to King George III, EdmundBurke andWilliam Pitt.

Cugoano’s passionate rhetoric and reasoned argument make his book amilestonein anti-slaveryliterature.

‘A good, crisp and punchy account. Cugoano deserves to be better known.’ ProfessorJamesWalvin (University of York)

‘Martin Hoyles is to be thanked for having unearthed more information about the activities and milieu of the African abolitionist OttobahCugoano.’Professor Robin Blackburn (University of Essex)

Daughter of the Great River is a story based on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples inthefictionalcountryof Kayana, “Land of Many Waters”.

Onida is the eponymous Daughter of the Great River who emerged more than five hundred years after her ancestors were brutally suppressed by invading Europeans and were forced to flee to the safetyof therainforests of Kayana.

Her tribe of Kayanese is made up of several Indigenous Peoples who prefer to live in the hinterland of Kayana’s vast rainforests. She is the ‘chosen one’ to lead her peoples out of their challenging circumstances where the natural resources of gold and timber are beingexploited by local andforeign interests.

Within the world’s current population of 7.8 billion people, there are an estimated 370 to 500 million of Indigenous origin. They are defined as having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and precolonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves as distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing inthoseterritories (United Nations).

They continue to suffer from disproportionately high rates of poverty, healthproblems, crimeand humanrights abuses (UN).

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Becareful what you wishfor…

In a puff of SMOKE and a flash like LIGHTNING, a genie appears from the computer and whisks the e-Kidz off into CYBERSPACE… to play GAMES for ever and ever! It is their wish come true, but this is no ordinary game. The genie gives them a dangerous MISSION: CLEANUP THEINTERNET.

The e-Kidz head off on a thrilling SURF-RIDE across the superhighway where they encounter dangerous computer threats such as a plague of BUGS and COOKIES, evil POP-UPS, chat-room PREDATORS, TROJANS and VIRUSES. Each danger comes in theform ofadangerous CYBER-VILLAIN.

The journey takes them across the MATRIX to the centre of the WORLD WIDE WEB where they will face the evil web-monster known as theWEB-MASTER,inthefinalshowdown.

Aimed at the 10 – 14 age-group, e-Kidz: Mission to Cyberspace tackles the global concern of INTERNET SAFETY in an interesting andexciting way.

Youcanfindout MOREfrom the e-Kidz at www.ekidz.co 216 x 138mm 136 pages Paperback

We live in a world where we are constantly being judged by the colour of our skin... our gender... our faith... our social status. For many, these judgements remain unanswered or unchallenged and they turn the other cheek; their silence giving false authority to continuedinjustice.

Haile Selassie said that, “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it matteredmost, that has madeit possible forevilto triumph.”

The poems within this debut collection aim to INSPIRE the voice within and empower those who feel powerless and have remained silent.

Life is a journey along which we will encounter many challenges that wemustfight toovercome

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FOREIGN BODY

What if it happens to you?

2021

GLOBAL CITIZEN Grass Roots Activism and

A tale so bizarre which occurs infrequently as a medical anomaly, Marcia’s cryptic pregnancy produces a son for her apparently infertile husband, Marcus. They are delighted but Maria, the matriarch of the husband’s family, has doubts and struggles to balance her religious beliefs with her tragic past. She harbours unbelievable secrets that disrupt her relationship with her family, especially with herson’s wife.

Marcus, a self-assured man, is consumed by his mother’s treatment of Marcia and abandons any interaction with conflict. His sister, Claudia, is resilient and accepts responsibility for dealing with all the family’s problems whileconcealingherown anxieties.

Results from DNA tests only cause further confusion that reverberates within the medical establishment as well as in the family. The question is asked: “Who is the mother of this baby?” The events and family history also have ramifications for the doctor dealing with the exceptional situation, who becomes personally involvedas thestory builds toits climax.

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Carl Wright has devoted his entire working life to global action through grass roots activism and international diplomacy. During the past fifty years he engaged with world leaders and political icons from across the globe, including Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Indira Gandhi, Julius Nyerere, Shridath Ramphal, Fidel Castro, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ban Ki-Moon, Cyril Ramaphosa, Helen Clark and Bob Hawke. In these and many other encounters, he reflects his experiences of, “What it was like to bethere,”as he puts it.

Having made official visits to some 100 countries – from developed to developing nations, to fragile states and countries undergoing democratic transition – he has seen at first-hand what is required to implement good governance. These high-level missions included most ofthe 54nations of the Commonwealth, along withsomeof the world’s least visited countries, such as Moldova, Myanmar and SouthSudan.

Written from the perspective of a grass roots activist, Commonwealth diplomat and local government leader, these recollections provide rare insights into the relationships between inter-governmental organisations, global associations of mayors and trade unions, and the effects of political and social advocacy. In his writing he draws extensively on his experiences of working in the Commonwealth, the United Nations and the European Union at seniorlevel.

Perhaps most significant is his long-standing involvement with the anti-apartheid struggle, and he recalls with great sensitivity the many challenges he andothers faced.

Carl Wright’s personal and candid book delivers a critical message: the need for global understanding and co-operation. With the rise of political populists, authoritarian strongmen and violent extremists, he implores us to strengthen fragile international relations and mitigate thethreat ofconflict whichis currently real and ever-present.

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GOODBYE, MANGO

SERGEANT

Memoir of a Jamaica Trench Town Boy

2010

Keith Walker spent his early years in Kingston, Jamaica, where life was tough in the hot and dusty ghettos of Trench Town. This is where his storybegins.

He later moved to the countryside parish of Portland where his love for the plentiful and delicious mango earned him the nickname, MangoSergeant.

In the mid-1960s, Keith said goodbye to the land of his birth to join his mother in England. It was the Swinging Sixties – a time of love and ‘flower power’ – but life in London for a young Black man was cold, bleak and unfriendly, and presented a whole new set of challenges. Every day was a struggle in his new, adopted home, but Keith accepted his fate and decided to do the best he could through diligenceand hard work.

Nearly fifty years on, and looking back on his life, there were times of great adventure and great danger; friendship and conflict; joy and sadness; and ultimate success. “For me,” he says, “success is being able to walk the streets, ride the buses or visit public places without the fear of being discriminated against because of the colour of my skinortheland of mybirth.”

Known as the land of many waters (a name given by the country’s first Amerindian inhabitants), Guyana is located on the north-eastern shoulder of South America. It occupies an area of 83,000 square miles (a little smaller than the United Kingdom) and is the continent’s only English-speaking nation. Formerly British Guiana, the country had been a colonial outpost of both the Dutch and the British but is culturally more Caribbean than Latin American. With a majority population – almost equally – of both African and Indian heritage, Guyanese society has been influenced by many other cultural traditions and customs and is, today, the quintessential Caribbean nation.The countryitself has a range of ecosystems andlandscapes that include vast areas of tropical rainforest, thousands of miles of rivers, more than one hundred waterfalls (the most notable being Guyana’s iconic Kaieteur Falls), eighteen lakes, four mountain ranges and sprawling savannahs. It is home to more than eight hundred species of bird, over two hundred varieties of mammal and more than two hundred species of reptile and amphibian. Geographically, Guyana is part of the Guiana Shield which, together with the adjacent Amazon Basin, forms the largest equatorial forest in the world. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographic images, Guyana provides a spectacular and unrivalled insight into a unique andlittle-known Caribbeannation.

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GUYANA: HISTORY AND LITERATURE

2016

HAND-IN-HAND HISTORY OF CRICKET

IN GUYANA, 1865-1897

Volume 1: The Foundation

Guyana: History and Literature examines Guyana’s growth as a nation over three hundred and fifty years. Sixty-four reviews of works of history, biography, memoirs, fiction, even a play and an interview, discuss politics, ethnicity, culture, African slavery, Indian indenture, and fortunes of the two best known Guyanese politicians – Dr Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham. The volume offers the variety and scope of an anthology, perceptions and insights of a literary critic, elegance and style of fine writing, and the thrill of fresh revelation anddiscovery.

From travelogues by Dr George Pinckard and Henry Bolingbroke to books by James Rodway and the Roths, father and son, Guyana: History and Literature encompasses wide facets of Guyanese experience and specific studies such as Juanita de Barros’s spectacular evocation of Guyana’s capital city in Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown. African-Guyanese contributions by Eusi Kwayana and his wife Tchaiko also match a ground-breaking exposé of sexist violence against Indian indentured women by Giautra Bahadur, while a revealing biography of A.R.F. Webber confirms him as Guyana’s major political pioneer. Comments on Fred D’Aguiar’s fictional portrait of “Jonestown,” or novels by Sharon Maas and Ryhaan Shah exploring Hindu metaphysics, enhance Guyana: History and Literature, as do perspectives on diasporic fiction by Brenda Chester DoHarris and Barney Singh, one in New York and the other in Toronto, and unforgettable memoirs by Roy Heath and Charlotte Williams, daughter of DenisWilliams.

This is the first volume of a major study of the social history of cricket in Guyana from 1865 to 1966, when the country became independent. It is a legacy project to mark the 150th anniversary of one of the great institutions in the region, the Hand-in-Hand Fire Insurance Company. The year 2015 is also the 150th anniversary of first-class cricket in the West Indies: Barbados v British Guiana in February1865.

This volume pursues the gradual evolution of the game from 1865 to the late 1890s, in the context of the colony’s ethnic and social diversity. It explores the origin of the Guyanese-Barbadian rivalry which enriched West Indies cricket for more than a century, and the emergence of the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and its famous Bourda Ground in 1858 and 1885 respectively. It encompasses the GCC’s seminal role in inter-colonial cricket; its instrumentality in the first West Indies tour overseas, to North America in 1886; and its hosting of two English teams in the 1890s, notably Lord Hawke’s in 1897. The latter was a watershed for black cricketers. Yet the GCC was enmeshed in the race and class prejudices of the age, and (unlike Trinidad) tardy in engaging with or selecting non-white cricketers in the colony’s team. Consequently, the game’s potential was stifled, although non-whites throughout British Guiana took to cricket with passion, celebrating it as a vindication of their credentials as creoles – authentic Englishcolonials.

“…a uniquescholarlystudy” MikeAtherton

“A work of scholarship that, in the manner of his mentor, C.L.R. James, goes deftly beyond the boundary crafting a superb portrait of Guyanainthelate 19thcentury.” MikeBrearley

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In British Guiana in the 1960s, a forbidden love story bloomed amid societal expectations and entrenched prejudices. Merle, an IndianGuyanese girl, and Aubrey, an African-European-Guyanese boy, dared to cross the lines that divided their communities. Bound by an invisible thread, they navigated the turbulent waters with a fierce desireto betogether.

They eventually left their homeland and found solace in the vast embrace of Canada. Here, they vowed their hearts to each other andbuilt a lifetogether, raisingtwo daughters.

Their love story transcends time and distance, whispered on the wings of letters that bridged the miles when Aubrey’s work took him to the sands of Saudi Arabia. These heartfelt missives become a testament to the enduring power of love, a silent symphony played across continents, weaving a melody of longing, resilience and unwavering devotion.

Merle’s poignant memoir is not just a love story; it is a love letter to her husband and a celebration of their life together. It is a powerful reminder that love knows no boundaries, no matter the distance or the societal constraints. In the fading ink of Aubrey’s letters, we hear his longing, his pride in their daughters and his unshakeable love for his wife.

This story will resonate with anyone who has ever dared to love beyondboundaries andis atestament to theunwaveringspirit of two souls who defied the odds and wrote their own love story, one letter, onememory, one heartbeat at atime.

Merle recollects that, while on vacation in India, Aubrey had secretly bought a painting she had admired in a local shop. She remembers saying,“Love, you are always buying mesuchbeautifulthings.” Aubrey simply shrugged his shoulders and replied, “You know, if possible, I’llbuyyouheaven.”

In Pursuit of Betterment, is a unique collection of five historical fiction stories of families from India, Guyana and the Caribbean, Mauritius, East Africa, and South Africa. The five families share a compelling desire and drive to achieve betterment through education, hard work, and business, against the backdrop of the histories of the countries they originatefrom, leave,and, thosethey reside in.

Each story should resonate with readers of the Indian Diaspora and others, who have had to leave their homelands to explore better life chances inothercountries.

The first story, The Billionaires, is set in India and London as the Shivwani family grows from humble beginnings, to international business success. Could they keep the family together despite such wealth?

Little Guyana is the story of Inshan Khan who was sent to London to study Law. His extended family also had to leave Guyana due to a decline in the local economy, and became part of the emergence of “Little Guyana” in New York. Where does the future lay for the Khans?

Murali Dharam of the beautiful island of Mauritius, known as “Chota Bharat” or Little India, also arrived in London to study Psychiatric Nursing. His romantic liaisons created family tensions both in Mauritius andEngland. How willtheseberesolved?

Manubhai Patel and his family were forcibly expelled from Uganda in 1972, and were faced with new challenges in Leicester, England, including racial harassment. Their Ugandan Asian community responded with sheer grit and determination to succeed. How will theyfare?

The fifth story is set in Durban, South Africa where the largest population of Indians have settled outside India. Professor Yusuf mentors two young PhD students seeking answers about their country’s emergence from apartheid, to the pursuit of racial healing andharmony.Howdoes this play out inthe new “Rainbow” nation?

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Ira Aldridge was an amazing man. As a ten-year-old working-class black boy in New York, he ran away to sea and was nearly sold into slavery. In 1824, when he was seventeen, he came to London and within months was playing Othello. By the time of his death in 1867 he was the most famous actor in the whole of Europe. He appeared on stage in more than 250 theatres in Britain and Ireland and more than 225 venues on the Continent. This book presents some of the speeches from the plays which he performed, along with extensive commentaries. It also includes an introduction dealing with colour and gender casting, acting style, audience and politics, and Aldridge’s legacy. It is essential reading for drama students and actors.

“This book provides a wealth of information on the principal roles Aldridge played, setting each in an illuminating historical context and telling how audiences responded to the many different characters he portrayed.” ProfessorBernth Lindfors (University of Texas)

“An excellent introduction to Ira Aldridge, bringing out his amazing talent and influence. This accessible book will provide inspiration for actors, both black and white.” Ray Fearon (Actor)

“A well researched, thorough and comprehensive account of Ira Aldridge’s life and career. The triumphs and challenges he faced and overcame, along with the historical context of the theatrical world, are illustrated with depth and insight.” OkuEkpenyon (Historian)

As a young student in Pakistan, Nisar Ali Shah took his first steps into the world of journalism at the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. He later joined the Times of Karachi before leaving for England in 1960.

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It was in London that he studied computerised photo-composition at the London College of Communication, and also completed courses in sub-editing at the Polytechnic of Central London and one run by the NationalCouncilfortheTraining ofJournalists.

Nisar worked for many years as a Reader at The Times and The Sunday Times and later progressed to sub-editor. To break the monotony of a 9-5 working life, he became a freelance sub-editor and worked on many London-based publications including The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, South London Press, Marketing Week, Health Service Journal, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Middle East Online, South Magazine, TV Times, TV World, The Doctor, The Voice, Daily Awaaz, Wandsworth Independent and Ealing Gazette

Nisar values the opportunities he had of working for more than 35 years on most of what were then the Fleet Street newspapers and has been a member of the UK’s National Union of Journalists since 1987. He also prides himself on working for twenty years at The Times in London without adayoff!

Describing himself as an international journalist, Nisar Ali Shah’s articles, columns, essays, op-eds and reviews have since appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement, AlHayat, TheNews International, Confluence magazine, Pakistan Times, Asian Times (London), The Voice (London), Eastern Eye (London), Crescent International (Toronto), West Africa Magazine and Diplomatisches Magazin (Germany).

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This is the story of Dante Brookes, a young man growing up in London in the late seventies and early eighties when sound systems ruled the party scene for young, Black British youths of Caribbean heritage. He navigates the loss of friends, police harassment and being a teenage father while forging a career as an MC. Dante stumbles into the acting profession and also becomes a writer. It is through these disparate experiences that he learns that the pen and mic aremightierthanthesword.

Marcus Gullant was born in a remote village in 1920s British Guiana. Growing up, he was restless and ambitious and generally misunderstood by his peers. He felt unsuited to the slow pace of villagelifeandalways sought adventureandpurpose.

As a young man, his attentions were drawn to Teresa, one of the village elite. But her status, and that of her family, was beyond his reach. Howwould he be abletocontest her love?

His solution was to become a soldier in the British Army. The SecondWorldWar was merely two years old and he thought that no real man could occupy a better position other than to be in the military during wartime.

He enlisted as a merchant seaman and made the perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the ‘Mother Country’ where he was conscripted intotheArmy.

Marcus rose to the challenge of military life as well as to the challenges he faced through discrimination and hostility as a black manin a whitesociety.

His hard work and determination saw him grow in confidence and a world of possibilities was opened, including the pursuit of the woman heloved.

Matters of the heart are rarely straightforward, and for Marcus there was no exception.

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PASTOR DANIELS EKARTE AND THE AFRICAN CHURCHES MISSION

Liverpool 1931-1964

2023

A young man arrived in Liverpool from Nigeria around 1915, expecting to find the streets paved with gold. The Dingle area of Toxteth he settled in was instead depressed, poor, racist, and to his mind, ungodly. In 1931, he founded the African Churches Mission, in which he not only conducted services but also fed and clothed the poor of the community, and housed seamen and others denied accommodation due to the colour of their skin. He also provided a home for the unwanted children of local white women left behind by their fathers, African American servicemen who returned home whenWorldWarII ended.

As a radical supporter of pro-independence and anti-racist movements in the African Diaspora, he was regarded as troublesome by the Establishment, and therefore received no state or voluntary support, not even from the Anti-Slavery Society. Nevertheless, he and his mission soldiered on for over thirty years, until the dilapidated building was finally demolished by the Council in 1964.

Using British and international sources, historian Marika Sherwood has pieced together this account of the remarkable life and work of Pastor Daniels Ekarte (referred to as the African Saint), retelling an inspiring story of kindness, activism, Black pride and resilience in a city built onthe exploitationof his Continent.

The people of the Caribbean are passionate about football, the beautifulgamethat evokes strong emotions and fervent support.

This expression of love and passion for football reaches its zenith every four years during the FIFA World Cup competition. However, only two Commonwealth Caribbean countries have qualified for the competition – Jamaica in 1998 and Trinidad and Tobago in 2006. Despite their qualification, these countries and others continue to struggleto reachsubsequentWorld Cups.

Perspectives on Caribbean Football focuses on the state of football in the Caribbean – the obstacles and opportunities that are linked to the growth of the sport; the need for a football philosophy of play in the region that reflects each country’s ethos and style backed by resources and ascientific approach. It argues that theseare required for Caribbean countries to play football at the highest level, as they dointhesports of netball, track andfield andcricket.

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REACHING FOR THE STARS

The Life of Dr Yesu Persaud

Volume Two

2023

RUM, RIVALRY & RESISTANCE

Fighting for the Caribbean Spirit

In Volume One of his memoirs, Dr Yesu Persaud wrote movingly about his family andtheirstruggles both duringand afterthe abolition of the indentureship system that had first brought them to what was then British Guiana. In Volume Two, he continues the story of his life from the mid-1970s, and provides a fascinating view of his business and professional life, as well as his philanthropy. Entwined with this storyis amorepersonalaccount whichgives a deeperinsight into Dr Persaud’s private life amongst family and friends. Even in the face of adversity, his candour and strong sense of humour always shine through.

Alongside his personal life, he gives an enthralling and detailed account of the political landscape of Guyana over the past seven decades. Never afraid to speak his mind, Dr Persaud weaves his own narrative alongside that of a broader, nationwide perspective, providing the reader with a highly personal insight into many of the country’s key political events. His detailed memories of encounters with those in authority are recounted with a frankness and honesty that bring a new perspective to incidents that have shaped the Guyanaoftoday.

Dr Persaud continued to work tirelessly for both his business and philanthropic interests until his death on 16th January 2022 at the age of 93. He was described by Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali as a“trueson ofthesoil” and will always be remembered for his selfless dedicationtothepeople, students andbusinesses of the Caribbean.

Yesu Persaud was a businessman, banker and philanthropist. The son of cane workers, he would eventually rise from his humble origins to become one of Guyana’s most successful entrepreneurs. Among his many philanthropic activities was his keen and continuous support of educational activities at the University of Guyana. This allowed the University to create the Cheddi Jagan Lecture Theatre and, more recently, the Yesu Persaud Medical Training Centre.

No other spirit beverage encapsulates the essence of Caribbean social and cultural atmosphere quite like rum. Indeed, Caribbean rum, like sugar, has helped to influence and shape many aspects of the region’s political, economic and social experience. While Caribbean rum is not often associated with politics, in this unique study, Dr Tony Talburt shows how this popular Caribbean spirit beverage not only has a social and cultural significance but has also been the subject of a number of political decisions by governments inthe Caribbean,the USA andEurope.

Although the primary focus of this book is centred upon the period in the second half of the 20th century amid the political conflict to market Caribbean rums in the European Union, it nonetheless also provides an overview of the political significance of Caribbean rum in the 18th and19thcenturies.

Rum, Rivalry & Resistance introduces the reader to the political history of Caribbean rum especially within the context of recent political and economic struggles to retain nature, quality and market for the survival this important Caribbean spirit. It concludes with a number of recommendations and strategies that may have to be explored in greater depth by Caribbean rum producers so that the sugar-rum industries might survivein the 21st century.

Includes: Foreword by the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Sir Shridath Ramphal; Short biographies of rum produces; Extensivebibliography; Fullindex

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SHORT AND SWEET

A Collection of Guyanese Stories and Fables

2008

The Life of V.C. Bird 2010

This collection of twenty-five short stories and fables chronicles a way of lifethat is unmistakably Guyanese.

Robert John Fernandes is a well-known Guyanese adventurer and nature photographer and many of the stories were taken from his life experiences. They provide fascinating snapshots of the Guyanese way of life. They include a diverse range of characters from lost tribes to porknocker wives; from Leroy the laxative man to Ma Bancroft the gun-toting old lady. The fables, however, are a product of his overactive imagination and an ample supply of free time. In these tales he examines the lives of rainbows, raindrops, old dogs, snail hawks and trees from a refreshingly Guyanese perspective. With a photographer’s perception, Fernandes breathes life into the ever-changing backdrop of his often humorous and always poignant stories. Many aspects of this cultural tapestry are fast disappearing andneedtobepreservedas part of Guyana’s national heritage. “There is great enjoyment awaiting readers of this first, and hopefully not the last, collection of stories from a great lover of his country and its people.” StanleyGreaves, Guyanese artist and poet

As its charismatic labour leader, its first Chief Minister, its first Premier and first Prime Minister, V.C. Bird dominated the political life of Antigua and Barbuda for the 55 years between 1939 and 1994. Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V.C. Bird is the first full-length biography of this great Antiguan and Barbudan political leader. It begins with a close look at the path of Bird’s development as a man and as a politician. Following this introduction to the man, it examines the major achievements and failures of Bird’s rule, the contours that these positives and negatives outlined, and the indelible traces they have left on the path of Antiguan and Barbudan history.

V.C. Bird’s achievements includedpoliticalindependencefor Antigua and Barbuda from Britain. His failures included the creating by default of a tourist-based postcolonial state capitalist society as an alternative to the colonial sugar plantation order. This default capitalist order came instead of the Black democratic socialist society that he had promised and ideologically projected. These are the positive and negative poles between which Prof. Paget Henry frames his narrative of the life and political times of V.C. Bird. The book concludes with some reflections on the meaning of Bird’s successes and failures for postcolonial transformation not only in AntiguaandBarbuda but alsoforthe widerCaribbean.

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Established in the 1960s, the Black cosmetics company, Dyke & Dryden had a major impact on Britain’s Black community. The company provided jobs and opportunities and it also helped to promoteBlack culture andidentity.

Tony Wade and his business partners, Len Dyke and Dudley Dryden, were pioneers in the development of the Black hair care industry in Britain. The company’s success also inspired other Black entrepreneurs tostart theirown businesses.

Today, Dyke & Dryden’s legacy lives on and the company is still acknowledged as a trailblazer, not only in the Black British hair and beauty industrybut also inBlack Britishbusiness ingeneral.

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For a nation that has seen itself many times in photographic essays, The Art of Mali Olatunji is a masterful photographic work on Antigua and Barbuda that genuinely goes beyond all earlier attempts to capture this twin-island state in images. The photographs in this book are truly astounding. They will make you stop and wonder. In addition to their images of home, these photographs also take account of the migratory experiences of Antiguans and Barbudans, and thus include powerful images of New York and London. Adding even more to the riches and power of this book is the engaging story that it tells about the life of the maker of these photographs and his unique aesthetic development. As a result, Antigua and Barbuda is here presented in ways neverseen before.

The special feature that sets Olatunji’s photographic essay apart is its framing within an original and very distinct aesthetic – one that Olatunji calls a woodist/jumbie aesthetic. Like surrealism, cubism and other original aesthetics, woodism is a visual summary of Olatunji’s way of looking at life. In particular, it is an aesthetic that sees the world through the wooded eyes of jumbies. Your jumbie is your soul or the spiritual part of you that survives the death of the body. In Antigua and Barbuda and much of the Caribbean, jumbies are believed to make their post-body home in trees, and in particular silk cottontrees.

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SUGAR’S SWEET

2013

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: The Life and Times of an African Caribbean British Man 2022

It is 1843, and Mustafa Ali, an eighteen year-old Muslim Indian labourerfrom a villagenearKanpur, UttarPradesh, India, is forcedto run away through the discovery of his forbidden love for Chandini Sharma, his Hindu childhood sweetheart. His dream was to find work, savehis money and returntoask for his beloved’s hand. This dream took him further afieldintothe promise of good work, pay and conditions as an indentured labourer on one of the sugar plantations, thousands of miles away in the colony of British Guiana on the mainland of South America. His experiences on the Grand Trunk Road across Uttar Pradesh to Bengal, and on the treacherous sea voyage from Calcutta to Georgetown, tested his resolve to the limit. Then, when he and his companions were allocated to their sugar plantations, they had to endure and overcome more challenges of racial, religious and cultural differences, in addition to the unrelenting and punishing workloads in extremely harsh conditions.

This is a story that is shared by millions of the descendents of indentured Indian labourers who are spread across all parts of the world.WillMustafasucceedinhis quest?

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ARTHURFRANCE is someone that ‘the establishment’ would prefer tokeep hiddenfrom British history. But he has made history, and this book explains how and why.

He was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Nevis and arrived in Leeds in the north of England in 1957. He soon began to organise members of the local Caribbean community into a united forceforsocialprogress and was awarded an MBE in 1997.

But Arthur France is best known as the founder of the first Black-led Caribbean Carnival in Europe. This was in Leeds in 1967, but his idea for carnival was not merely sequins and feathers – for him, Carnival was a symbol of Emancipation and a vehicle for changing people’s lives.

If Leeds is now a city that embraces diversity, it is in no small part duetoArthurFrance and his brothers andsisters instruggle.

In telling Arthur’s story, author Max Farrar also reflects upon the struggle for justice and equality led by so many members of Britain’s Black and Brown communities. It provides the context of violent racism, including the white riots in London’s Notting Hill, the relentless provocation towards their own self-defence, and the growth of the Black Power movement. This remarkable man’s life storyis apoignant narrative about ‘race’inpost-warBritain.

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THE BELIEVERS

2012

“Here in the midst of New York’s many faiths and religions is this fascinating account of the little known and understood aspect of West Indian spiritualism. Dr Ashby brings alive our differences and those things that unite us in this important chronicle. A must read!” George Lombardi, MD

“With this book, Dr Glenville Ashby makes a necessary and fascinating interjection into records of Caribbean life. ‘The Believers’ is among the first major works whose primary focus is the lives of Caribbean peoples living in New York, an area that requites commentary and analysis. The importance of Dr Ashby’s effort is furthered by his attention to the complex, twice and trice removed spirituality of the community. Dr Ashby’s training as a journalist and his own life and network among Caribbean people in New York enable a readable and intricate text.” Dr Sheila Rampersad, Lecturer andJournalist

“There is much that is covered in this book that has not been previously elucidated. A particularly important facet of the book is the discussion on the links between Haitian history, spirituality and its present social and political situation. The discussion and arguments that will be engendered will assist in lifting the veil of hypocrisy and pretence that attend these practices in the multi-cultural society of Trinidad and Tobago and in the Caribbean Diaspora. And as it is for the African, so it is for the Indian. Find the workman, find the pundit, but quietly, like Nicodemus went to Christ, at dead of night. As the syncretic masks have become fused onto the traditional practices, the advent of Ifa/Orisa practice has brought a new dimension to the equation.”EintouSpringer, Poet Laureateandauthor

Located at the eastern-most tip of Jamaica is the fictional village of Cane Field Paradise. Its verdant surroundings are dominated by a sugar estate, which provides the main source of income for the inhabitants.

For nine decades, the sugar factory dominated the skyline and the daily lives of the local residents, and it is where employment is guaranteed to any able-bodied person. Consequently, the villagers work hard, butthey alsoplay hard… especiallyon payday! Merriment andexcitement ensue duringthesetimes of plenty but the thrill of the moment is punctuated by the unexpected closure of the sugarfactory.

The Demise of Cane Field Paradise is an intimate portrait and picturesque narrative of the reality of Jamaican village life. It shifts across the landscape of the overarching sugar estate, the backbreaking labour, crop over celebrations, family life and the elation of payday.

Although fictional, Cane Field Paradise is born of fact and is a reflection of a once prestigious village whose future in the modern erais uncertain.

“Georgia’s use of the English language is truly distinguished. Her choice of words, use of metaphor, account of events, graphic portraits – and so much else, come alive in this truly outstanding narrative.” Dr Trevor Munroe, Professor Emeritus of political science at theUniversity of theWest Indies

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THE DOMINO MASTERS OF DEMERARA

It is the 6th of August 1985, and the final and deciding game of dominoes between three rival teams from the sugar plantation villages of Anna Catherina, Leonora and Cornelia Ida, in Demerara, Guyana, is underway. Michael “Histry Maan” Brown, the selfappointed coach to the Anna Catherina ACES, reverts to newtactics topass sublimetips to his captain, Vishnu“DoubleSix”Prashad.

The game is played out at a time when Guyana and its peoples were still emerging from a history of struggle through African slavery, Portuguese, Indian and Chinese indentured labour, political independence, racial unrest, mass migration and economic downturn.

Michael, Vishnu and their friends use every means available to continue to survive, and to build their lives in their multi-racial, multireligious andmulti-culturalsociety.

The game of dominoes provides them with the opportunity to demonstrate their competitiveness, their search for unity, and their resolvetoface uptotheirchallenges.

Cantheysucceedas OnePeople, One Nation, withOne Destiny?

On 31 January 1927, the West India Regiment was disbanded after parading for the last time at Up Park Camp in Kingston, Jamaica. The ceremony marked the end of over 130 years of continuous serviceof West Indiantroops intheBritishArmy.

Raised in 1795 from among the slave population of the West Indies, the West India Regiments proved invaluable to the British cause during the Napoleonic Wars. From a maximum of twelve in 1800 there were never less than two such regiments in existence until 1920, serving throughout the Caribbean and in all the British West African colonies. In tracing the fascinating, but at the same time sad and disturbing, history of these regiments, this book also examines the way in which Black soldiers, regardless of loyalty, devotion to duty and skill at arms, were never fully accepted in a white man’s army.

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THE SHAPING OF A CULTURE: Rituals and Festivals in Trinidad compared with selected counterparts in India, 1990-2014 2016

Trinidad and Tobago reflects the dynamic rhythm of a cosmopolitan mix of cultures where the Indo-Trinidadian contribution is significant.

This has its genesis in the 19th and early 20th centuries when more than 500,000 contract workers, from various regions of India, were shipped to the Caribbean to arrest the labour crisis in these plantation economies. These Indian indentured immigrants brought their religions, languages, rituals, festivals, cultural practices and other performativetraditions and plantedthem in its fertilesoil.

The Shaping of a Culture: Rituals and Festivals in Trinidad compared with selected counterparts in India, 1990-2014 uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the changes being simultaneously experienced within these rituals and festivals in Trinidad and their counterparts in the respective geographical areas in the ancestral country, at the turn of the 21st century. It also examines the Indo-Trinidadians’ influence on other festivals which they encountered inthe locallandscape.

The rituals and festivals examined are Ramleela, Divali, Christmas, Carnival, Shivaratri, Phagwa (or Holi), the observance of Muharram (or Hosay) and the Jhandi (or prayer flag) in its many manifestations and symbolic meanings. It identifies aspects of cultural persistence, assimilations, internal innovations and syncretisms taking place within these cultures. It presents for the first time, in a consolidated, integrated framework, multiple layers of fascinating images of some of these performative traditions as they contribute to the shaping of the cultural diversity of Trinbago and the Caribbean. It is a guide to understanding the ethos and collective consciousness of the Trinbagonian lifestyle and the Indo-Caribbean diaspora, now scatteredacross the globe.

“A work of scholarly distinction, this book sets a new benchmark in Indo-Caribbean scholarship. None has explored the Indian background in conjunction with the context and character of cultural change in the region with such multi-disciplinary rigour as this. It is peerless in its treatment of rites, festivals and sacred spaces and how they have shaped identity in Trinidad.” Clem Seecharan, Emeritus Professorof History, London Metropolitan University

“This book crosses genres and combines disciplines, and considers how Indo-Trinidadians have contributed to the rich mosaic of Trinidad culture and, especially, its national aesthetics, through the lens of religious rites and festivals.” Bridget Brereton, Emeritus Professorof History, University of the West Indies

Thinking Outside the Box is a collection of articles, lectures, talks, sermons, homilies and presentations that emerge from Bishop Dr Joe Aldred’s work as a Black male Christian; a bishop in a Pentecostal church; an ecumenist with Churches Together; a broadcaster; writer; public speaker; and social commentator. His personal reflections address such themes as race, the Bible, the Black Church, progress, ecumenism, politics, preaching, multiculturalism, Christmas, money, leadership, destiny and parenting.

This diverse mix of writings reflect an eclectic life and ministry in which a mixed-portfolio of roles has been an ever-present companion.

Be challenged by what you read. Agree, disagree, argue, correct; but most of all, enjoy!

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Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most cosmopolitan countries in the world. Since the arrival of Amerindian peoples more than ten thousand years ago, this twin-island, Caribbean nation has become a melting pot of different races, traditions, customs and religions. European colonisers and settlers from Africa, India, China and the Middle East began arriving from the late 1400s. These disparate groups all played a part in influencing Trinidad and Tobago’s diverse anduniqueculture.

Birthplace of calypso music and the steel pan, and home to the world famous Trinidad Carnival, the nation boasts one of the most exclusive tourism destinations in the world Tobago) and an emerging eco-tourism sector.

Trinidad and Tobago: Terrific and Tranquil is a lavishly illustrated book comprising more than two hundred photographic images. It is published to commemorate the nation’s 50th anniversary of independence.

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Unbeaten Innings is the fascinating autobiographical account of the life of Steve Stephenson, MBE. It is a vivid insight into his love of sport, family life and career in local government; both as a social worker and as a prominent equality and human rights campaigner. It also highlights his dedication to tackling racism, both in his working environment and through a lifetime of voluntary work in support of Black cricketers andfootballers, inparticular.

Steve Stephenson grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to the UK when he was eighteen years old. From his early years working on the assembly line at Chrysler to his role as a senior social worker and manager of the Malcolm X Centre in Bristol, Stephenson has dedicated his life to helping others. His years as leader of the Starlight Youth Club in Luton are just one example of his outstanding commitment to the voluntary sector, whilst his talent for raising money for charitable organisations has become legendary within the Black community.

As both a player and passionate fan of cricket, Stephenson has supported, helped and even fed members of the West Indies teams during their visits to the UK over the past four decades. As a result, many of their key players count him as a close friend and, in turn, assist in his charitable activities. He was also the first to pay tribute to the pioneers of Black British football, and continues to actively campaign against racism in all walks of life. He ends his book by saying that he “will be happy to be remembered as a person who did make a difference”. After reading Unbeaten Innings, many more will be abletotestifythat hecertainlydid just that.

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WALK WITH ME

Collin Leroy Carter is a Barbadian national who divides his time between ‘Umoja’, his home in Barbados, and London. He is the founder and owner of African-Caribbean Funeral Services, the first Black-owned funeral service in the United Kingdom. He also owns Jetload Trading Limited, a freight-forwarding company, and Jessbank Limited, a property management and development company.

Over the years, his friends oftentold him that he, “has abook in him,” but it was only after making a promise to his wife, Lynne, and his family, and with the help of author, Annette Ione Smith (whose research was invaluable to its completion) that the publication of this book has cometofruition.

Collin is an activist and committed Pan-Africanist; a truly conscious African. Walk With Me is the fulfilment of a lifelong dream of telling his story by following in the footsteps of the ancestral griots. He is grateful to be able to share his life’s experiences and the knowledge he has gained with you.

“Practical, straight-talking, encouraging and packed with information, advice and anecdotes – the essential handbook for anyone who wants theirchildto goto aselectiveschool”

The 11-Step Guide to the 11+ Maze contains everything a parent needs to know if they’re considering putting their child though the 11+ It is an authoritative information-packed manual which takes you through the complicated twists and turns of the exam maze process in 11 easy-to-followsteps. It tells you what to do, when to do it, how to do it and perhaps more importantly how to survive it in a straight talking, practical and supportive way. Helpfully, it also tells youthings the educationauthorities would rather you didn’t know. Written by a parent who went through it herself, the Guide draws heavily on a wealth of first hand experiences, wry observations and anecdotes. It’s funny, it’s touchingand, at times, ateeny-bit terrifying! With contributions from three respected London headteachers, the Guide is penned with the particular needs of parents in south east London, Bexley, Kent andBromleyin mind.

There are chapters on tutoring, motivating your child, what each school’s exam entails, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, the Common Admission Form, what to do if it all goes wrong and the Independent sector, amongst others.

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A BLACK STUDIES

PRIMER: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora

2008

A DREAM DEFERRED Guyanese Identity and the Shadow of Colonialism

2007

This is an essential text for students and scholars of Black history. It features over 1,000 biographies of historical andcontemporaryBlack figures that have made a significant contribution to the development of modern civilization. This book is a celebration of the impact made by Black people in areas such as politics, engineering, agriculture, entertainment, literature, medicine, sport and philosophy, to name but a few. A Black Studies Primer is an easy-reference encyclopaedia which has been compiled in order to fill the gaps in Black Studies in the school curricula. Both interesting and stimulating, it will inspire students and teachers alike to pursue further research, and provides the perfect insight into Black heritage andculture.

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This concise book examines the social, cultural and political aspects of Guyana’s recent troubled history. Divisive colonialism has created a land of contradictions; in the 1950s the promise of a more united freedom was snatched away by British colonial interests and the USA’s Cold War ambitions. Yet despite the polarised ethnic and political divisions the Guyanese display a remarkable ability to cross boundaries and meld complex cultures. These reflections on the struggle to expel the colonial shadow are based on interviews with political figures (like Jagan and Kwayana) and academics (including Clive Thomas and John Le Guerre) as well as the insights of ordinaryGuyanesepeople.

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Frank Thomasson’s study of 200 years of theatre in Guyana is a fascinating work which includes a compilation of related articles extracted from local journals dating back to the early 19th century. His survey establishes itself as a pioneering and indispensable segment in the history of Guyana. It makes a case for the importance of the theatre in the diverse culture of the Guyanese people, in helping them to understand and appreciate the lives and concerns of eachother.

This valuable study encompasses the performing arts which the different ethnic groups brought with them. Added to this was the beginnings of the European theatre in 19th century Georgetown which gave rise to the emergence of theatre organised by the East Indian and African Guyanese middle classes in the early 20th century, to the vibrancy of a diverse and socially committed theatre inthe 1950s, leadinguptoIndependence.

Thomasson’s extensive definition of theatre embraces not only the emergence of serious repertory theatre, but also all forms of entertainment and state-run public extravaganzas. He explores the national and regional examples of encouragement of theatre, from the Booker Company’s sponsorship and support of theatre groups and competitions on the sugar estates, to the inclusion of drama in the extra-curricular activities of the leading schools, the birth of the National Cultural Centre and Carifesta. The longest section of his history is dedicated to a detailed study of the Theatre Guild of Guyana, the longest existing and most ‘professional’ of the repertory groups inthecountry.

“Ameena Gafoor’s book offers a rare insight into Muslim life in Guyana. It is rich in detail, its realism enhanced by her equally rich imagination.

“Muslim existence is rarely described or represented in Caribbean literature,soGafoor’s book fills asignificant gap.

“Her tribute to her mother is so painfully moving and beautiful that I had to pause from reading so as to catch my breath. Her description of being an immigrant in London is, again, a relatively rare revelation of female experience, and complements Sam Selvon’s beautiful novel,The LonelyLondoners.”

Emeritus Professor David Dabydeen (University ofWarwick) Director, AmeenaGafoorInstitute ameenagafoorinstitute.org

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AN AFRICAN JOURNEY

2016

The hero of the Akan people of West Africa and our hero, Anancy, takes us on ajourneythroughtime andhistory. He reveals the heroic achievements of his people, and guides us through the traumas that were inflicted on his motherland by the European Invaders, from the 15thcentury onwards.

Anancy takes us back to December 1492, when the three galleons commanded by Christopher Columbus ran aground on the rocky shoreline of Ayiti (Haiti). The event was to have dire consequences for the inhabitants of the island – the Taino people – and later the Africancontinent.

The enslavement and near extinction of the Taino people, through mining gold, silver and pearls for the Spanish invaders, created the demand for another source of free labour. Anancy is at the heart of the resistance to the enslavement of the local Taino people and the Africans inthe‘RecentlyEnslavedWorld’.

Anancy uses his dual personality – as a man and a spider – to resist and torment the slave masters, while inspiring and supporting his brothers andsisters to endtheir enslavement. He plays a central role in their resistance and ultimate liberation from the cane pieces throughout the islands of the Caribbean and on the mainland of SouthAmerica.

This second volume of An African Journey traces former enslaved Africans, along with their heroes, Sista and Breda Anancy (Ananse, Anansi), after Emancipation in the British Caribbean. It depicts their struggle for political and economic liberation from the colonial power –Britain, andoutlines theirjourneythroughout theregioninsearch of work.

It also comments on the journeys made to Europe by thousands of men and women who enlisted to fight in the First and Second World Wars.

An African Journey continues with the now symbolic first mass migration to Britain from the Caribbean on board the Empire Windrush in 1948. For more than two decades after this momentous docking at Tilbury, men and women from the Caribbean (the socalled ‘Windrush Generation’) would answer the call from the Mother Country andthe prospect of jobopportunities inpost-warBritain. Their ancestors had been enslaved and taken from Africa more than four hundred years earlier to work on the plantations of the Caribbean and the Americas. And here was another journey... from the CaribbeantoGreat Britain.

The book also traces thejourney of Mrs Brown and herseven young children who set sail from Jamaica to Britain in 1964 to join their father in London. The family experiences hostility and discrimination from the moment they arrive in the Mother Country. Their story is by no means unique; it is a story that could be told by countless members of the Windrush Generation, not just from their arrival in Britain, but also throughout the intervening seven decades up to 2018.

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ANDREW WATSON

The World’s First Black Football Superstar 2017

Tranquillity Wrapped in Blue

Forewordby Lord HermanOuseley

Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of AndrewWatsonsoremarkable.

It seems hard to imagine that a Guyanese-born Black man could head the Scottish national football team in 1881 in a game against England. Not only was he captain, but he also led them to a 6-1 victory in London – an achievement that still ranks as England’s heaviest ever defeat on home soil. If this were all that Watson had been able to accomplish, most people would agree that he should be commended for being the world’s first Black person to captain a national football team. But there was so much more. He was the world’s first Black football administrator, as well as the first Black playerto winthree nationalcup winners’trophies.

During the 1870s and 1880s, when Watson played, he was regarded as one of the finest players in Britain. The word ‘pioneer’ is often used to describe certain players, but this would certainly be a most fitting expression to encapsulate the remarkable achievements of AndrewWatson.

This book reflects upon the legend, legacy and pioneering endeavours of atruly great Black Britishfootballsuperstar. 216 x

With its pristine, white-sand beaches, washed by crystal-clear waters, Anguilla embodies tranquillity itself. And this book provides a unique insight into one of the world’s most exclusive tourism destinations. The most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, Anguilla is just 16 miles long and three miles at its widest point. This definitive guide provides an insight into the nation’s history, local customs and traditions, its people and places, andits successes and achievements. Morethan350colour photos.

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ANGUILLA

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE ARTS

Drama in schools is growing in popularity in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In addition to annual schools drama festivals in some countries, there is also the Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival, whichis heldina different nation everytwo years.

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has now included Theatre Arts as one of its subjects, and an increasing number of secondaryschoolstudents arenowtakingpart.

This essential resource book introduces teachers to various aspects of Theatre Arts and helps to prepare students taking the subject for CXC. It will also be useful to the many amateur theatre groups throughout the Caribbean and will assist them to better understand the intricacies oftheatrical productions.

The Autobiography of Former President & Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad andTobago

Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson rose from humble origins on a small island in the Caribbean to become a national, regional and internationalleader.

His life story has been truly inspirational. It is a story that contains the magic and poetry of what life can and should be. Nonetheless, it has not been an easy life. Certainly, A.N.R. Robinson has faced his share of challenges, including some that have been life-threatening, but he has lived with solid principles rooted in justice for all and deep faith in humanity. This has served him well. His character was formed in his close family and his early schooling in Tobago. He would become a graduate of Oxford University, a parliamentarian, Minister of Finance, and Prime Minister and President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He served his people with distinction, never losing sight of the immense responsibility of public service.

A.N.R. Robinson has not only been a great leader of his country, but he has demonstrated that capacity on the world stage. In fact, he has altered the course of history by his extraordinary leadership in the creation of an International Criminal Court (ICC). Without his efforts, it is doubtful that this court – one of the major international institutionalinnovations of thetwentiethcentury– would exist today. Some people believe that only the big and powerful countries can influence the international system and the course of history. They are wrong. Trinidad and Tobago, under the leadership of a man of vision and determination, led the way to the establishment of the ICC, an institution that holds the promise of restoring integrity to world affairs and saving countless innocent lives. By this effort and achievement, both A.N.R. Robinson and Trinidad and Tobago have earnedaspecial place ontheinternationalmap. Changing the world is not easy. There is no magic wand. It takes the determination of exceptional leaders with vision like A.N.R. Robinson. It also takes the commitment and persistence of many people whojointogetherfora noblecause.

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Antigua and Barbuda: A Little Bit of Paradise is a spectacular, pictorial insight into a vibrant Caribbean nation. Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred photographic images, it captures the many aspects of life inthis twin-island state.

Blessed with warm tropical sunshine, soothing trade winds, crystalclear waters and lush vegetation – and with a beach for every day of the year – Antigua and Barbuda really is a little bit of paradise. And this vision of paradise is made up of palm-fringed coves in Antigua andmiles of deserted beaches inBarbuda.

Away from the beach, history and artistry combine in the nation’s annual Carnival, where pageantry and ‘pan’ is a vivacious celebration of Antiguan and Barbudan culture, set to the sounds of calypsomusic.

Antigua and Barbuda also attracts sailing enthusiasts from across the globe, and it plays host to a number of events including Antigua Sailing Week, which is the Caribbean’s oldest regatta. It is said that the world’s new economic frontier is the ocean and, as an archipelagic state, Antigua and Barbuda off ers enormous potential for economic development andinvestment inthis ‘BlueEconomy’. This vision of Paradise on Earth is for everyone – residents, visitors and investors – and Antigua and Barbuda: A Little Bit of Paradise will provide an exceptional insight into the nation’s history, culture, people and potential for becoming a global purveyor of high quality services.

The pages within this book serve as an open invitation to visit Antigua and Barbuda, where you can experience a little bit of paradisefor yourself.

Belonging: Fate and Changing Realities is a compelling account of one man’s extraordinary life experiences. As a twelve-year-old born into an impoverished single parent household in what was then British Guiana, Herman travelled unaccompanied across the world to Britain to be re-united with his mother in Peckham, south London. Low in self-confidence and self-esteem, he regarded himself as a “nobody” in this new world as he struggled to come to terms with the harsh realities of brutal abuse, discrimination, exclusion and the necessity ofsurvival.

This memoir vividly describes how he learnt to cope with all challenges, finding his own unique ways of winning people over and encouraging them to mix with others who are different from themselves. Along the way, he learnt how to develop methods to convince and persuade powerful people to use their influence and decision making to help eliminate the adverse effects of institutional discrimination, reduce prejudice and bigotry, and to build social cohesion.

Over a period of 56 years dedicated to public service, he became a “somebody” at times, as he challenged the ‘good and the great’ to use their resources and power in pursuit of the goals of equality and cohesion. But, in spite of the opportunities to access such places of power, he never felt a full sense of belonging and his focus has always been to hold on to the different realities of his own experiences.

As he now reverts back to obscurity, he reflects on contemporary Britain, knowing that there is still a struggle to achieve responsible and accountable leadership on matters of equality, without which many people like himself will continue longing to feel that they also belong.

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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

The Story of Black British Scientist Alan Goffe

2008

Between Two Worlds is the moving story of a renowned medical scientist who was tragically cut down in his prime. Alan Goffe was born in Britain in 1920 to a Jamaican father and an English mother, both of whom were physicians. During the 1950s and 1960s, Dr Alan Goffe was one of a group of microbiologists who helped develop and improve vaccines designed to fight two of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases – polio and measles. However, he was not destined to see the fruits of his labours. Less than a year after establishing the department of experimental cytology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, he tragically drowned in a yachting accident off the southern coast of England. He was fortysix.

“Alan Goffe had won himself a place among the foremost virologists in this country, and had an international reputation. He took a great interest in general social problems, and played an active role himself from thehumanitarian aspect.” British MedicalJournal, 1966

"I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the valuable contributions Black people like Dr Alan Goffe have made to the world of science. (He) remains a towering figure who ought to be honoured and revered by people everywhere." Yvette D. Clarke, U.S. Congresswoman, 2007

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Published in 1987, this part biography part social commentary contains all the elements of the life story of any West Indian in Britain.

West Indians came with innocent dreams and expectations of being treated as full citizens of their ‘Motherland’ – a country for which they had fought in the Second World War. But they were quickly and starkly disillusioned and shocked by white racist rejection and cruelty.

Roy Sawh – civil rights activist and public speaker – looks back over his three decades inBritainsince his arrivalinthe 1950s.

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BLACK DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

BLACK ROUTES

Legacy of African Diaspora 2007

Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights: The Failure of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the UK. Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlights the limited commitment to fulfilling Macpherson’s recommendations and the value of diversity training to operational policing. Against the backdrop of Black deaths in police custody, the book questions the extent to which ‘institutionalisedracism’has beengenuinelychallenged. In October 2007, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) became operational. This development will place a growing emphasis on public bodies, such as the police, to meet their obligations as laid out in the Human Rights Act (1998). By drawing attention to a tragic and little-known problem, this book attempts to offer agenuine agendaforchange.

Black Routes: Legacy of African Diaspora is a collection of commentaries and biographies featuring a distinguished group of Black theorists, writers andinfluential social revolutionaries. It encompasses some well-known and seminal figures from the African Diaspora – from both sides of the Atlantic – such as Bernie Grant and Kwame Toure. Cultural studies, poetry and political activism are represented by the likes of Stuart Hall, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ericka Huggins, respectively. The graceful yet revolutionary voices of Assata Shakur and Michael Akintaro are set alongside the promotion of creative dissidence as espoused by Nawal al-El Saadawi, the examination of Eldridge Cleaver’s ‘politics of redemption’ and Hanan Ashrawi’s ethic of Amanha (trust). Africa is represented by Peter Mokaba and Joe Slovo, and the transformation of sport to education for life is embodied in the former West Ham United footballer and American National Coach, Clive Charles.

Black Routes is a celebration of these principled individuals whose commitment to the rejection of oppression deserves wider acknowledgement.

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CARIBBEAN PUBLISHING IN BRITAIN

A Tribute to Arif Ali

2011 & 2015

Three-quarters of a century old and with forty years of publishing behind him, ArifAliis an extraordinary man.

He was born in Guyana in 1935. Two of his grandparents were Indian indentured labourers. In 1957, he came to England to study, but ended up educating himself.

By the 1980s, he was publishing three weekly newspapers and two monthly magazines, employing a total of 140 staff. The circulation of the weekly Caribbean Times peaked at 28,000, averaging around 10,000. In all his publications, Arif was reaching a readership of about half a million people. He also published books and Hansib is stillthe biggest andmost diverse black book publisherinBritain. This book traces the tradition of Caribbean publishing in Britain, starting in the nineteenth century with the revolutionary Jamaican Robert Wedderburn, Celestine Edwards from Dominica who published Lux and Fraternity, and the Trinidadian barrister Henry SylvesterWilliams.

From the first half of the twentieth century, it records the work of the two Jamaicans Harold Moody (The Keys) and Marcus Garvey (Black Man), and also Ras T. Makonnen from Guyana. After the Second World War, two key publishers were Claudia Jones from Trinidad with the West Indian Gazette and Edward Scobie from Dominica whoproducedTropic andFlamingo.

The second part of the book describes Arif’s native country Guyana, from its original inhabitants the Amerindians, through colonialism, slaveryand indenturedlabourtoindependence.

From a series of interviews, the third section records Arif’s background and achievements in publishing and applauds his reputation for anti-racist campaigning and community activity, which is secondtonone.

Gloria Cameron came to Britain from Jamaica as a young woman, endured the discrimination she met on arrival to bring up six children ina positivehome with aspirations.

Educated in her place of birth and the UK she moved into community work where she gave her all, perhaps too much, when the giving was seen as taking and culminated in an extraordinary case where she was the accused. Without foundation the case collapsed within two days, dismissed! It should never have happenedbut the damage was done.

A woman who was appointed a JP, met with Princess Diana, and madeTV appearances, went through the darkest days imaginable.

Her story is an historical account of Jamaicans coming to Britain, achievingsuccess, and being broughtdown by... who reallyknows?

“… a non-patronising, non-sentimental and certainly a nonpathological account of her experience as a Caribbean migrant mother living, surviving and bringing up six children in London.”

DameJocelynBarrowOBE

“… great educational value for young people of Caribbean origin in the contemporary society, who have not had the opportunity to learn this history.” DrElaineArnold

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CHILDREN OF WATOOKA

CLOCKING UP PRAYER MILES

Step into an extraordinary and fascinating world … little known, but immensely remarkable and hollering for attention … formerly British Guiana, now Guyana. Learn about the country’s captivating history from before slavery/indenture through to modern times. Learn about someof its outstanding people both within/without thecountry.

Entwining history with people, the book is a ‘story of stories’. Over eighty-five people of five races have contributed to make fascinating reading. Five notable people have endorsedthecontent.

Follow the stories of Guyanese people, as well as of ex-patriates from Britain, Canada, Holland and the U.S., and, particularly those of the Canadian Connolly family, as the centre of the more general story focuses throughout the middle of the twentieth century in the village of Watooka nestled in the former rainforest area of Mackenzie, nowknown as Linden.

The reader will also learn about the incredible and little known ties between Guyana and Canada and about the bauxite/aluminium industry. Working together, the two countries produced forty percent of the aluminium used by the Allies for airplane production to win WWII. Detailed drama stories of this, of torpedoed bauxite ships and of survivors prevail.

The unique and unsurpassed flora and fauna of the country are highlightedso as toentrancethe reader.

Children of Watooka is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Guyana’s independence.

There is no denying that we live in a chaotic and uncertain world filled with many challenges. The stresses and strains of daily life will test us to the limit and it is often hard to avoid being affected, either emotionally, physicallyorspiritually.

Clocking Up Prayer Miles aims to shine a light on the steps towards spiritual restoration and to show how, through PRAYER, the future will appear so much brighter than even the darkest days. It will reinforce how the POWER OF PRAYER can give us the strength and courage to face the challenges ahead. Through PRAYER, we willgaincomfort from thePowerof God.

Drawing upon the author’s spiritual experiences, Clocking Up Prayer Miles shows that PRAYER is not a list of wishes, hopes and dreams but, instead, it is an essential route to staying connected with God on our journey through life. This personal account seeks to shine a light on God’s perspectives into our deep and dark places and to offer us hope. It will also show how PRAYER underpins our FAITH and how God destroys fear, illness, disease, incarceration and raises the dead.

PRAYER enables us to proclaim that God’s grace is all we need and that we will overcome through Jesus Christ – our Lord and Saviour. If you are feeling broken, hopeless, lost or faithless, then this book mighthelpto invigorate yourspiritandrestoreyour FAITH.

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COLONIAL EMIGRATION FROM

Recruitment for the Sugar Colonies

Colonial Emigration from the Bengal Presidency is an abridged version of the exhaustive 1883 unpublished report of George Grierson. In late 1882, this Indian government civil servant conducted a comprehensive study of issues relating to the export of Indianlabour overseas from thePresidency.

This primary source, ferreted out from the Emigration Proceedings of the Government of India, is an invaluable addition to the existing literature ontheIndian diasporainthe Caribbean and elsewhere. It is perhaps the definitive study of recruiting operations in the Bengal Presidency. It provides new insights into such neglected, glossed overissues as theclass andcharacterofcolonialrecruiters, thestate of the labour market, the popularity of recruiting districts in Bihar, prejudices against emigration, depot accommodation and sanitation, family and female recruitment and the correlation between food scarcity and high migration and population pressure and unemployment.

Scholars and others will find its authoritative evidence, wealth of information andstatisticaldataboth insightful andinformative.

“… useful statistical information, as well as linguistic material of unusualinterest.” Prof. HughTinker

“... illuminates issues crucial to our understanding of Indian diasporic history.” Prof. Frank Birbalsingh

Kanpur to Kolkata is a unique publication in that it provides for the first time a comprehensive assessment of labour recruiting operations in a catchment area from where the great majority of Caribbean East Indians originated. Besides its insightful analysis of crucial emigration issues, this book highlights the grief and trauma of emigrants’families, particularlythe wives left behind inIndia. What is most interesting are the personal recollections of returnees with regard to the working and living conditions in the colonies and their special attraction, the uncertainties of the voyage and the socioeconomic conditions in Indian villages.

Nuggets of information such as rail transportation to Kolkata, the physical and sanitary conditions of sub-depots, the entrepreneurial spirit of emigrants and the obstructionist attitude of both families and Government officials, are conspicuously absent from other published sources ... until now. This study will hopefully engage the general reader and also open up new vistas for scholarly research on unexploredissues withinthis intriguingfield.

“... a vivid tapestry of ... Village India, depot operations, iniquitous police practice, degradation of women and the wrenching trauma of family separation.” Dr Gary Girdhari, Editor and Publisher, Guyana Journal

“Basdeo Mangru is to be congratulated once again in his attempts in making availableprimarysources on theIndiandiaspora...” Dr Tyran Ramnarine, EducatorandHistorian

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Communicative power is the ability of a communicative act to realize the intentions of its originators. Communicativeacts are goal directed and rely on varying levels of collaboration in order to achieve their intended objectives. In an interesting polemic Paloma Mohamed argues that variations in communicative power are directly related to variations in other types of power in any society. Therefore low communicative power is directly related to inequality and social and economic marginalisation. Communication Power and Change in the Caribbean takes a fascinating holistic, multi-level actor oriented approach to examining social change in two Caribbean countries. Mohamed evaluates the power of various communicative artefacts produced by various strata in those societies. She continues by investigating what constitutes this power, how it is used, how it is maintained and in whose interests. The result is a richly researched, deeply thoughtful and passionately argued case for placing communication at the core of evaluations of power and change in the world. 210 x

This collection of short stories, from Trinidad’s versatile and ebullient Willi Chen, features the wide variety of ordinary folk of the island. There are farmers, shopkeepers, thieves, drug-dealers, migrants from other islands and far-off places, people on the move, and people lookingfor aplaceanda life. It is astark and elemental world: brute force versus human enterprise; cruelty pausing before sheer beauty; jumbie birds, snakes, howler monkeys and thunderous storms. There are depths around the everyday surfaces: A disappointed man drifts back from the city to his rural setting; an honest small-islander is surprised by himself; a ‘foul’ thief, bitten by a dog, suffers rather than let an obeah woman examine the wound; a man turns away from thoughts of suicide and finds his wife dying instead.

Writer, painter, sculptor, baker, Willi Chen is a multi-faceted Trinidadian of Chinese origin. His stories are filled with surprise, tension, fear, farce and comedy and come from the circumstance that his characters – of whatever station or ethnic origin – are all in a state ofbeing orbecomingTrinidadian.

His style reflects the magical realism and exuberance of the language of the Caribbean, and his characters are alive and memorable and record the very essence of real life in Trinidad and Tobago.

“Willi Chen’s writing is vivid, passionate and imbued with the carnivalesquespirit of Trinidad.” David Dabydeen

“In Willi Chen, there is the most unusual gift of versatility.” Michael Anthony

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CRUMBLED SMALL

2005

Crumbled Small: The Commonwealth Caribbean in World Politics is a candid account of the situation of Caribbean small states in the global community written by a former participant in many of the deliberations of Caribbean governments. Sir Ronald Sanders declares, “The Caribbean is in crisis.” Preferential markets for traditional Caribbean products are gone; the financial services sector is under siege; and tourism is endangered by natural disasters as well as constant leakage of its earnings from Caribbean economies. Drug trafficking has contributed significantly to rising levels of crime. The problem is overwhelming law enforcement agencies and weakening thefabric of societies. The international community is not doing enough to ensure that these small states do not slide into conditions of high unemployment that will increase poverty, expand the spread of HIV/Aids and threaten their survival. Smallness is powerlessness, and each of these small states lacks the capacity to cope with the challenges that confront them. The conclusion of this book is compelling: Governments have to face-up to the crisis, state it boldly to their people and the international community, and act resolutely to overcome it in the only way that is sensible – and that is to make their small countries bigger through arrangements of joint governance that are so patently necessary to make them more viable.

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Two families reunite for a feast on Eid ul-Fitr – the day Muslims celebrate the end of the month of fasting – and boys who grew up together will meet again... as men. As the big day approaches, two of the men go to the mosque, one leaves his girlfriend and another watches porn. Nevertheless, they arrive intent on embracingthe day. Old enmities are put aside as they take tentative steps towards each other.

This is a story about love, hate, longing and sexual dysfunction, all sifted through the fallout from the war on terror, and how we drift from each other, leaving every man stranded across a wasteland of atrophied connections. We witness the realities of a post-9/11 world filter down, touch individual lives, combine with some internal tension,andfinallyspillover.

This contemporary novel also takes in universal themes such as the fearof getting old, failing as a breadwinner andfailing one's parents.

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Dominica is a virtually unspoilt island whose volcanic peaks rise imposingly from the sea to create a magnificent landscape of forested mountains and river valleys. It is the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles and has the distinction of being home to the tallestpeak intheEasternCaribbean.

Dominica’s reputation as the Nature Island of the Caribbean is well earned because of its unspoilt landscape, natural beauty and abundance of wild flora and fauna. The country is also known for its many rivers – “one for every day of the year” – and is renowned for its spectacular waterfalls.

Consistently rated as a leading dive destination, Dominica’s marine life is considered to be among the best in the world. It is also the foremost whale-watching destinationintheCaribbean.

Illustrated with more than two hundred photographic images, Dominica: Nature Island of the Caribbeanis aninsight into oneof the Caribbean’s best-keptsecrets.

In making Dr Cheddi Jagan’s ‘Forbidden Freedom’ available to a new generation, Hansib is republishing a classic document of anticolonialist and anti-imperialist struggle from one of the veteran freedom fighters oftheThirdWorld.

First published in 1954, Dr Jagan’s ‘Story of British Guiana’ appeared in the aftermath of the military intervention that removed from office the democratically elected government of which he was Premier. Dr Jagan showed how this fitted in to both the colonial policy of Britain and the ‘Cold War’ spearheaded by the United States. It includes an analysis of “Labour and the Colonies” and shows who arethe genuine and who arethefalse democrats.

In the original epilogue, Dr Jagan predicts the later split in the PPP “along ideological and racial lines”. It is above all that induced division that dictates the fact that, as this new edition goes to press, the author finds himself struggling in a context of industrial unrest and an uncontrollable economic crisis which in his words “stems from thelack ofdemocracy”.

This edition includes a new preface by the author, calling for a break in the policies that he notes are leading both the developed and developing worlds towards disaster.

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2017

DYSLEXIA FROM A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

2007

Domestic violence has been with us a very long time – it has a beginning and it must have an ending. The pace of change has been slow because men have failed to take responsibility for ending the violence. This book challenges men to take that responsibility seriously, especially the men in government throughout the region. Defeating Domestic Violence in the Americas – Men’s Work puts forward solutions for governments to bring an end to socialization for violence. The focus is the Americas since the problem of violence is most urgent there, where 42 of the world’s 50 most violent cities are located. The possibilities for progressive governments in the region totakeupthe proposedsolutions are realistic and imperative. This book argues that our history of violence is partly responsible for the “macho culture” endemic in the region, and which is directly linked to domestic violence. Raising awareness about our history of violence will help towards a positive change in attitudes and behaviour. Luke Daniels charts the region’s history of violence before and after the arrival of Columbus, looking at the effects of native genocide and slavery, and how that history impacts on the violenceinoursocieties today.

“... this excellent book ... is about humanity, about injustice and suffering, [and] reminds us of the urgent need for gender equality and respect among all peoples.”

Rocío Maneiro, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelatothe UK

Dyslexia is a critical issue worldwide. There is widespread ignorance about it and the consequences can be devastating. Of the 700 books on dyslexia in the British Library, apparently not one is written by aBlack authorand nonedeals withtheissue of race andculture.

10% of people are dyslexic; 40% of prisoners are dyslexic; 25% of Royal College of Art students are dyslexic; 2% of university students aredyslexic

How is dyslexia viewed in theBlack communities?What needs to be done to raise awareness? How can dyslexics themselves become more conscious and confident? This book makes a start by looking in an accessible way at Statistics and famous dyslexics, such as Muhammad Ali and Whoopi Goldberg; the historical background and theoretical framework; and definitions and examples of what dyslexics experience.

Includes interviews with dyslexics suchas BenjaminZephaniah

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Becareful what you wishfor…

The e-Kidz head off on a thrilling SURF-RIDE across the superhighway where they encounter dangerous computer threats such as a plague of BUGS and COOKIES, evil POP-UPS and chat-room PREDATORS. Each new danger comes in the form of a dangerous CYBER-VILLAIN.

The journey take them across cyberspace to the centre of the WORLD WIDE WEB where they will face the evil web-monster known as theWEB-MASTER,inthefinalshowdown.

Aimed at the 6 - 9 age-group, eKidz In Cyberspace tackles the global concern of INTERNET SAFETY in an interesting and exciting way.Illustratedinfullcolourthroughout

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EVOLUTION OF A NATION Trinidad and Tobago at

2012

FACING

THE CHALLENGE

A Report of the First National All-Party Convention of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Councillors 1996

This collection of lectures was initiated by the presiding officers of the 10th Republican Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and took place across the nation between September and December 2011. Drawing on years of research, political activism and mature reflection, eight of the nation’s leading thinkers deliberated on the issues of governancesince independenceon31st August 1962. Independence marked the end of colonial rule that began during the 16th century under the aegis of Spain and had continued when the British captured Trinidad. At the same time, Tobago had its own uneven political history, changing hands from one European power to another. Independence was an improvement on the colonial regimebutmany of the vestiges of thepast have persisted

However, during the last three decades, these issues have been increasingly addressed and the nation has now reached the point at which detailed information and analysis can be provided by its own nationalleaders of thought.

With no uniformity of views, and no attempt to harmonise the ideas put forward for change, Evolution of a Nation: Trinidad and Tobago at Fifty will hopefully form the basis of the nation’s ongoing discourse onconstitutional reform.

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This first national Convention was a key and historic event for Black, Asian and ethnic minority people in British Local Government. Held on 30th & 31st March 1995, it was attended by more than 50 per cent of all Black, Asian and ethnic minority councillors in Great Britain.

Published in 1996, this report includes the findings of a national survey of councillors. The results indicate that there is a long and hard struggle ahead to share power and to influence the work of local government so that it is inclusive of Black and ethnic minority communities.

There is clearly a race equality agenda for the new millennium. Through local government this agenda can bring together diverse communities to tackle discrimination and disadvantage and to influence mainstream policies. By reflecting the race dimension in all economic, social and public policy matters and by making a commitment to integrate the needs and interests of black and ethnic minority communities, Britain will become a fairer society and a strongercommunity.

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ForewordbythePrime Minister of Barbados Introduction bythe Rt. Excellent SirGarfieldSobers

Barbados acquired the reputation of a country that punches above its weight. Ranked highest in the Caribbean and one of the highest globally as a developing country in the UN Human Development Index, this island paradise is the birthplace of The Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers, The Honourable George Lamming, and the multitalented Rihanna. It is also the ancestral home of Walter Tull, Shirley Chisholm, IrvingBurgie, and Eric HolderJr, among others.

It is also the birthplace of both the sugar cane industry in the then British Empire, then the most valued commodity, and rum, with the island producingsomeof thefinest qualityblends internationally.

The only country that George Washington, the first President of the United States, visited outside of the North American mainland; through its 1651 Declaration of Independence and 1652 Charter, Barbados is credited with influencing the Founding Fathers and the framing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the UnitedStates of America.

On 30 November 1966, this phenomenal heritage was given focus and direction by The Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, the first Prime Minister and a National Hero of Barbados. Proclaimed the “Father of Independence”, it was said that this close friend of the leaders of his era including Michael Manley, Pierre Trudeau, Lee Kuan Yew, and Seretse Khama, “found Barbados a collection of villages andtransformedthem into a proud nation.”

In this, the 50th year of Barbados’ Independence, this publication, with contributions from national, regional and international leaders andkey speeches byBarrow himself, is a tribute to this extraordinary man who gave Barbadians the ability to hold their heads high and proud in this world, as a people worthy of respect. Like George Washington, he, and his name, arereveredforhis fathering a nation. This is a must read for citizens of the modern Caribbean and those interested in leadership and the history, economics, politics and internationalrelations of smallstates.

This essential book recalls the events, issues, attitudes and personalities that were centraltothe evolution ofWest Indian cricket. Historical reflection is combined with cricket reminiscence from the 1920s to the 1960s - the most critical years. Four decades of West Indian cricket are vividly recreated and examined with loving care andaccuracy.

INSIDE – Ch. 1: ‘The Headley Era’ 1928-1939); Ch. 2: ‘The PostWar Years’ 1948-1949); Ch. 3: ‘The Ws, and Ram & Val’ 19501957); Ch. 4: ‘Consolidation’ - The West Indies under Gerry Alexander 1958-1960); Ch. 5: ‘Ascension’ - The West Indies under Frank Worrell1960-1963); Ch. 6: ‘TheKing’- TheWest Indies under Garfield Sobers 1965-1966); Ch. 7: ‘The Players’ features biographical sketches of eighteen key players; Ch. 8: ‘The Writers’ reviews a selection of books by West Indian cricketers and cricket writers; Ch. 9: Comments on the writings of VS Naipaul, Edward Brathwaite andCLRJames. Includes Select Bibliography andIndex

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From the late 19th century, cricket was central to being West Indian in the British West Indies. By the 1890s a small Indian middle class in British Guiana (Guyana), descendants of ‘bound coolies’ taken from India after slavery, began to advance their own credentials of belonging to the region. They sought to forge an identity inspired by Mother India’s cultural resurgence, in conjunction with the Creole sensibility of their new homeland, permeated by British imperial culture.

The mastery of the great Indian cricketer in England, Prince Ranjitsinhji 'Ranji' (1872-1933), who possessed the imagination of the cricketing world before the Great War, stirred Indo-Guyanese to accelerated proficiency in the game. They claimed him as their own, an antidotetothe ‘coolie’stain.

This book explores the role of cricket in shaping Indo-Guyanese identity, from Ranji’s example, through the seminal achievement of cricketers such as J.A. Veerasawmy and Chatterpaul ‘Doosha’ Persaud, to the reliable craftsmanship of Joe Solomon and the mercurial genius of Rohan Kanhai. This is framed by the complex socio-cultural milieu of colonial Guyana, culminating in the shifting perceptions by Indo-Guyanese of their two heroes towards the end of Empire: Rohan Kanhai (born 1935) and Cheddi Jagan (19181997). They were both from Plantation, Port Mourant, a fascinating place.

But the Indo-Guyanese narrative has no space for another gifted Test cricketer from Port Mourant, Basil Butcher. He is AfricanGuyanese. This book attempts to redress that. It is a study of the "passions and forces ... embodied in great popular heroes." [C.L.R. James]

If West Indies Test cricket betrays divisive values of race, class and colour inherited from a colonial history of plantation slavery and indenture, it also reflects a paradoxical power of resistance to this colonial legacy. In a region well known for such divisiveness, IndianCaribbean Test Cricketers and the Quest for Identity considers cricket’s capacity, at least, in reducing, if not transcending, division throughits focus oncollectiveteam activity inthe quest for identity. Indian-Caribbean Test Cricketers purrs with the balanced rhythms, fluency and felicity of writing reminiscent of C.L.R. James, and is enriched by anecdote and incident from Test players or commentators, both from home and abroad. The volume also arrives as a timely salute to great days of Test cricket now under mortal siege from the rampant popularity and commercialism of shorterforms of the game.

The careers of all thirty-three Indian-Caribbean Test cricketers who represented West Indies are chronicled up to the end of 2013.

Whether it is the epochal West Indies Test victory over England at Lord’s in 1950; Ramadhin’s brilliant haul of seven wickets for 49 runs against England in 1957 at Edgbaston; Solomon’s two miraculous run-outs in 1960 against Australia that spawned the first ever tied Test; Kanhai’s ‘scorched earth’ 77 runs against England at the Oval in 1963; or Chanderpaul’s glorious century off 69 balls against Australia at Bourda in 2003, Indian-Caribbean Test Cricketers has whatit takes toinform, entertain or enlighten bothcricket fans as well as general readers.

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FROM TOP MOUNTAIN An Autobiography

CORNERED TIGERS

AHistoryofPakistan’s Test Cricket

Joseph (Joe) Daniel Aldred was born in the rural district of Top Mountain located in the hills of St Catherine, Jamaica. Most of the inhabitants were poor folk who tilled the land with subsistence crops and reared domestic livestock. For those who wanted to improve their lives, the choice was to either move to the island’s capital, Kingston, ormigrate overseas. Most of Joe's immediatefamilychose the second option and, at various times throughout the 1950s and 1960s, they emigratedtoEngland andtheUnitedStates.

The Aldred family settled in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England and in 1968, at the age of fifteen, Joe was reunited with his parents andsiblings –and introducedto thechillof aBritish autumn!

From Top Mountain is the story of one man's journey from humble beginnings in a Jamaican countryside, through the challenges of migration and settlement in a racialised environment, to the status of a respected – sometimes controversial – community and religious leader, broadcaster, ecumenist, speaker and writer.

While it is aimed at the general reader, From Top Mountain will also appeal to theologians, missiologists, sociologists and historians who are interested in the migration, settlement and cosmology of peoples across theglobe.

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Cornered Tigers is a comprehensive history of Pakistani Test Cricket, chronicling the development of the Test team from its inauguration in 1952 – just five years after Independence – to [1996]. A collection of the country’s most prominent and influential players are profiled for the first time in one book, from Abdul Hafeez Kardar, the first captain, through to the stars of the [1990s] including Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Inzamam-ul-Haq. In between there have been some of the world’s greatest Test cricketers such as Hanif Mohammad, Fazal Mahmood, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad.

This in-depth publication also looks at domestic and one-day cricket, considers candidly the various controversies surrounding Pakistan’s cricket and speculates on what the future holds for this cricket-loving nation.

Meticulously researched, with assistance from former Test player Wasim Raja, Cornered Tigers includes a complete record of all Pakistan’s Tests from 1952/3to 1996.

ADAM LICUDI is the cricket writer for the UK-based Asian Times newspaper. He has written on cricket and other sports for the paper since 1990 as wellas freelancefor a number of other publications.

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GLIMPSES OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY

The Art of Garnet Ifill

2015

The First of the First Fifty Years and the Predatory Challenge

2016

The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago has been considerably reduced in size and no longer dominates the landscape of central Trinidad as it had done for more than two centuries. During these gruelling years, African and Indian labourers toiled in the production of ‘brown gold’, rum, molasses, bagasse and other byproducts. Many thousands of workers were engaged in this endeavourand a uniqueculturedevelopedinthesugar belt. By the middle of the twentieth century, most of the elements of the industry were undergoing significant changes as modern technology replaced older, less efficient modes of production. Tractors and trucks were replacing the ox and mule carts; expanding railway systems were making the cane traces and watering coppers obsolete; and concrete dwellings were being built in place of the tapia houses andcarat-leavedajoupas.

At this critical juncture of modernisation, Garnet Ifill, a young and visionary photographer, decided to capture the fading heritage. His unique collection of photographs is, therefore, a permanent reminder of a bygone era.

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As Guyana marks the 50th Anniversary of its Independence on 26 May 2016, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has produced an essay on Guyana’s engagement with the world – in two Parts. First, the highlights of its regional and international encounters in the earliest years of Independence; and secondly, the ‘predatory’ challenges it has faced on its borders, particularly from Venezuela. The Venezuelan challenge has preceded Independence and lasted with increasing intensity all of the last fifty years. Sir Shridath Ramphal who was invited to write the essay, has had experience of Guyana’s international experience over the full period of fifty years and has been an active player in both areas of internationalism – the early years and the frontier issues. The essay throws new light on several areas of the Venezuelan challenge and looks to its resolution by judicial settlement under the auspices of the United Nations SecretaryGeneral.

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GUYANA IN THE WORLD

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Of all the world’s major countries India is surely the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. Worse still, India lovers embrace India withlittle ornounderstandingof thecountry.

Since 1947, ‘India Studies’ and ‘Pakistan Studies’ have become exercises in political spin and vilification. Myths and legends are held up as facts and plain prejudice is buttressed by so-called historical research. In the cause of creating a national identity and a particular vision of greatness, dangerous doctrines and unpalatable events are either ignored or nimbly explained away. Truth is being sacrificed at the altar of expediency.

This wide-ranging book sweeps away several religious, cultural, social and historical cobwebs. Fashionable correctness in all its forms is firmly rejected. Many received notions are proved to be patently false and famous iconic figures are shown to have had failings that affected the country’s future. Encountering India: Definitions and Clarifications, therefore, may be shocking to some and uncomfortable to others. Nevertheless, all who read this book will be ever impressed by its rigorous research, cogent arguments and lucid logic. It will certainly provoke wide debate. Written in engaging and persuasive prose, this book is, in short, an education onIndia.

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In its attempt to grab more than half of Guyana, Venezuela has relied persistently on fabrications, distortions, propaganda – and on wealth and power. This booklet (in English and Spanish) provides the facts withheld from the Venezuelan people. It reveals the reality of the Venezuelan crusade during the first fifty years of Guyana’s Independence. It shows how, once victims themselves, Venezuela has become the new ‘Conquistador’ in relation to Guyana. It reveals, also, how Guyana, as one of the smallest states in South America, has turned to the United Nations system and to international justice to liberate it from the plundering stratagems of the political and militaryforces inCaracas.

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THE NEW CONQUISTADORS

TheVenezuelan Challenge to Guyana’sSovereignty

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First published in 1987 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in the Caribbean, this collection of essays, poems and prose is written by leading Indian-Caribbean authors and scholars.

They reflect upon Indian history and culture in the Caribbean and celebrate the significant contributions made by Indians to the politics, cultureand economic progress of the region.

The Indians occupied the old slave quarters and worked in the sugar plantations, inheriting many of the conditions of servitude of the previously enslaved Africans. The essays in this volume deal with their subsequent plantation experiences, their active and passive resistance to bondage and exploitation, and their efforts at selfbetterment.

Indians have been able to make significant, sometimes unique, contributions at every level of Caribbean activity, in spite of the injustice and violencetheyendured.

This is thestoryof oneman’s returntoGuyana, thelandof his youth. His return was thirty-five years in the making, back to the country he never expectedtoleave; a place hethought wouldalways behome. Reynold Burrowes travelled to Guyana with several former classmates who, like him, were Guyanese expats hoping to reconnect with family members and old friends. The visit exceeded all expectations and was both eye-openingand overwhelming. They witnessed with great pride how the former British colony had made much progress. There was a dynamic tempo to daily life and an air of industriousness and optimism. But, despite their best efforts to re-engage, they felt increasingly like outsiders, desperately trying toenvisiontheirformerselves inthis nowunfamiliarland.

This memoir tells a familiar tale of those who dream of returning ‘home’ some day, but whose nostalgic voyage of discovery isn’t always what theyhopedit wouldbe.

“My old friend Reynold Burrowes is a Guyanese who, like so many, left his home country in search of something new. This is a soultouching and sometimes tearful memoir of his return home decades later, withallthe happiness and guilt tobefoundin aProdigalSon.” Michael Dobbs,Lord Dobbs ofWylye, Author andBritish politician

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IRA ALDRIDGE

I WAS A SOLDIER

Ira Aldridge was one of the most celebrated actors of the nineteenth century. He performed in all the major towns in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and won international fame when he toured Europe, earning a dozen honours and awards, including a knighthood in Germany. He was idolised in Russia. He was most famous for his portrayal of Othello, but he also acted in many other roles in a career spanning more than forty years. He was the first Black actor to play white roles, including Shylock, Richard III, King Lear and Macbeth. After three years of amateur dramatics in New York, Ira realised that there was no future for him as an actor in America, so in 1824, at the age of seventeen, he left for England. He worked his passage to Liverpool as a ship’s steward. Amazingly, in May 1825, he played Othello at the Royalty Theatre in the east end of London and in October took the main role in the Royal Coburg Theatre (now the Old Vic). He played the part of the African prince Oroonoko in The Revolt of Surinam, a story which challenged the evils ofslavery.The production was a remarkablesuccess, despite a review in The Times which said that “owing to the shape of his lips it is utterly impossible for him to pronounce English”! Despite being “the world’s most celebrated interpreter of Shakespeare” during his lifetime, Ira Aldridge was largely forgotten in Britain and America after his death in 1867. With 2007 marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, it is time to celebrate his achievements, not only as a brilliant realistic actor, but also as a valiant campaigner against slavery.

Jamaican-born Necola Hall served in the British Army for more than nine years, and is a veteran of theSecondGulfWar.

After being turned down by the Army on two occasions, her dogged tenacity and will to succeed eventually led to her acceptance into the Adjutant General Corps. The recollections of her experiences in the military and of her tour of duty in war-torn Iraq make for an inspiring read.

Originally from St Thomas in Jamaica, she emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2002, aged twenty-five, in search of better opportunities and prospects. She tells of the sacrifice of leaving her new husband behind; the emotions of separation, and her joy of being reunited withhim intheUK.

Necola reflects on the challenges she faced growing up in Jamaica. Her family’s impoverished circumstances meant school attendance was inconsistent, and this was to negatively impact her in adulthood. Despite her setbacks, she always possessed an unflinching determination tosucceedinall her endeavours.

Her early experiences and the unrelenting challenges of military life would take their toll, however. A miscarriage, illness, depression and being diagnosed as severely dyslexic all led to her self-confidence in tatters andhercareer intheArmy underthreat.

I Was a Soldier is the story of one woman’s life-changing journey from poverty in Jamaica to triumph over illness, and to the service of Queenandcountry.

Necola Hall was medically discharged from the British Army in 2013 andis married withthree children. Sheis also aborn-again Christian.

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JAMAICA Absolutely

2010 & 2012

Jamaican culture has touched every corner of the globe.Whetherit’s the pulsating rhythms of Bob Marley’s reggae music, dancehall patois or the pounding footsteps of Usain Bolt, the sounds of Jamaicareverberatethroughout the world.

Long described as a microcosm of Planet Earth, Jamaica has been influenced by many cultures and traditions. It is a country with a rich history – admittedly of severance and suffering – but, above all, with a will andcapacityforsurvivalandachievement.

When Columbus arrived, and beheld the palm-fringed beaches and lush, forested mountains, he described it as the fairest isle he had ever seen. But Jamaica is more than just beach and scenery. It is a rich diversity of cultures and traditions. It is rich in sounds and flavours. It is a feast for the senses. Jamaica is Rasta and reggae; rum and rhythm; jerk andjazz; coffee andcalypso.

Illustrated with more than 200 photographic images, Jamaica: Absolutely looks beyond the beach and gives an insight into the cultural, historical andsocial aspects of Jamaica.

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This is a unique collection of personal and reflective interviews and articles that presents narratives of life in Nottingham, from individuals of Jamaican heritage who havecontributed to thespirit and life of the city andits surroundingareas, from the1940s tothepresent day.

This volume includes witness accounts relating to many significant events in the history of Nottingham that directly affected Jamaican communities: the Nottingham race riots of 1958 and 1981, the Miners’ strikes of the 1980s, the Nottingham Carnival and the origins and development of the African Caribbean National Artistic (ACNA) Centre, a social and educational focal point of the black community in Nottingham from themid-1970s onwards.

As an autobiographical and educational text, this volume contributes to the growing new researches into modern, African Caribbean British social history and literary contexts. Packed with vivid photographs and newspaper cuttings Jamaicans in Nottingham is aimed at researchers, archivists, students, local historians, as well as the general readerinterestedinpictorialor oral histories.

“A unique, autobiographical and photographic resource. It acts as a record of narratives and reflections charting the stories of many Jamaicans who have made a difference, in a way as to value their own experiences, which they share with the world. A book that adds a dash of tropical flavour to Nottingham as well as helping to shape the rich fabric of Nottingham’s cross-cultural, social history. An excellent read!”PitmanBrowne, poet andauthor

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InthePublicServiceof Trinidad and Tobago 2023

What would the world look like if a woman ran it? This book chronicles the beginning of a new time in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago as the reins of national leadership are taken over by the remarkable Kamla Persad-Bissessar – the country’s First Woman Prime Minister. It also demonstrates the path taken by one of a growing number of women who arenowleaders of their nation. Born into humble beginnings in a farming district, the young Kamla Persad grew up with few material possessions. However, it was her mother, Rita, who would give her the gift of courage and the passion to dream. These attributes would first take her to London, England, as a teenager to study and become a social worker, and to marry fellowTrinidadian, GregBissessar.

But as Kamla matured, so too would her dreams; she became a university lecturer and then a lawyer. But her connection with ordinary people would ultimately inspire her to become a ‘representative of the people’ in her native Trinidad and Tobago where, at successive levels of Local Government, Parliament and Government Minister, she would support and encourage her constituents.

Now, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar – wife, mother and grandmother – has dedicated the next chapter in her life to share and implement her vision of a nation and a world where children can receive the best health care and education regardless of their parent’s financial circumstances, and where women are given equal opportunityto developthemselves in spite of their gender.

This lavishly illustrated book is a pictorial reflection of Kamla’s activities during the first year of her premiership and provides an insight into her thoughts and dreams for the future of Trinidad and Tobago.

The victim ofa historyof prejudicialtreatment

Dr Colin Furlonge served 34 years in the Public Service of Trinidad and Tobago, culminating with eight years as Medical Chief of Staff and three years as the nation’s Chief Medical Officer. In this expansive autobiography, he also provides a detailed expose as the “victim of a history of prejudicial treatment”. This treatment was directed by the Government of the day and guided by the Public Service Commission (PSC) – an institution created by the Constitution of a post-colonial Commonwealth Republic.

In 2004, he was compelled to resort to the High Court of Justice, whose Judgement stated that, “… compliance with PSC Regulations is necessary if there is to be confidence in the Public Service; failure to do so results in the warranted suspicion of arbitrariness, discrimination, bias, partiality and even political interference, especially when division along ethnic and political lines are often determinative of the perception of reality…”. It concluded that, “…theApplicant felt legitimately aggrieved.”

The treatment described in the Judgement was frequently repeated throughout his public servicecareer and beyond.

Dr Furlonge encourages all public servants to be resolute in giving honest, professional and evidence-based advice, and to retain all the necessary records to support their endeavours. He passionately recommends that Administrations and Oversight Commissions must adhere avidly to the rules and regulations if they are to instiltrust and confidence inthepublic service, and engenderhopeforthefuture.

“The book depicts a son of the soil in his struggles, literally from boyhood, to achieve the ultimate position in the Health Service in Trinidad&Tobago.” LalSawh, British MedicalJournal

“A remarkable story of a dedicated public servant who has served his country and the medical profession well.” Prof Steven Myint, formerDean of Medicine &Health at the Universityof Surrey, UK

“Bouts of laughter, intrigue and contemplation, punctuated by bouts of anger and sadness; an information boiling pot highlighting a fearless approach to life and public service.” Dr Curtis Rambaran, former Consultant Physician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London

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KING OF THE CARNIVAL and Other Stories

2006 – Reprint

A unique collection of short stories from the Caribbean, capturing the violence, trickery, pathos and racial comedy of Trinidadian society.

Chen writes in a great sweep of energy and from a deeply humane perspective, investing his characters with the capacity for laughter, suffering and redemption.

“Brilliant and exuberant. A triumph of Caribbean prose from a writer of natural, abundant talent” –David Dabydeen

“In these wonderously wrought stories, Willi Chen evokes the richness, beauty and diversity of Trinidadlife”–Selwyn Cudjoe

“In Willi Chen, Trinidad and Tobago has a short story writer of uniqueness and class. His work is bound to leave a stamp on our literature” – MichaelAnthony

This important biography of Antigua’s greatest calypsonian is also an in-depth study of the culture and socio-political history of Antigua and Barbuda and the wider Caribbean. The traditional ‘Caribbean song’ and its creators are treated with dignity and deep appreciation. The result is an essential and long overdue addition to the study of calypso. This is a must-read for calypso lovers, but there is something herefor everyone –from thecasual reader with interest in Caribbean music and culture to the students and teachers of Caribbeansociologyandculturalstudies.

“ not only a portrait of a great artiste, King Short Shirt, but also an in-depth study of the culture and socio-political history of Antigua. This is a must-read for calypso lovers.” Bernard Percival, former Minister of Education andCulture,Antigua andBarbuda

“This important biography is the brilliant work of an ‘insider’. O’Marde knows calypso and uses his experience as lyricist, analyst, judge and commentator to explore the life and work of Antigua’s and one of the Caribbean’s best calypsonians. It is not possible to appreciate the work of King Short Shirt, his writers and music arrangers without an understanding of Caribbean sociology and politics and O’Marde leads us knowledgably through the complex set of cultural values and political history that shaped and continue to shape Antiguan/Caribbean society. O’Marde is not afraid of expressing controversial and non-conformist ideas.” Franki Mwalimu Kwame Tafari

“Definitely an advance in the study of calypso ... O’Marde not only explores the artform for/from its literary and socio-political significance but ventures into its music and performance attributes. There is something here for everyone – from the casual reader with interest in Caribbean music and culture to the students and teachers of Caribbean sociology and cultural studies. An enthralling and galloping read.” AmbassadorAnthonyLiverpool

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KING SHORT SHIRT Nobody Go Run Me

Life and Times of Sir MacLean Emanuel

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The West Indian contribution during World War II is a much overlooked chapter in the history of the Allied war effort. Little is known about the heroics, sacrifices andthe harsh treatment endured by men and women from the Caribbean who were serving what was thenconsidered‘the Mother Country’.

Lest We Forget tells their story through oral recollection, and highlights their contribution to that conflict and the subsequent settlement of a substantial number in the United Kingdom, a settlement which, at that time, constituted the largest migration of Caribbean people everseeninBritain.

Predominantly serving in the Royal Air Force - from ground-crew to pilots - their tales of gallantry and tenacity over the enemy are told, alongside the challenges of cultural differences, climate and racial prejudice.

Degradation of the environment and climate change are the most important challenges facing humanity. For thousands of years humanity lived in harmonious relationship with nature. The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with the environment. Following the Second World War, massive urbanisation (from 30% of global population in 1950 to 56% in 2016), manifold increase in global GDP (from $5.7 trillion in 1950 to $110 trillion in 2016), unprecedented growth in population (from 2.6 billion in 1950 to 7.4 billion in 2016) and rising energy consumption, have resulted in a quantum leap to human induced activities, particularly since 1950. Today, we are in the midst of a rapid transition to a world where human populations are more crowded, more connected and more consuming, simultaneously cohabiting with unparalleled levels of poverty andhunger.

With rapidly increasing consumption, the carrying capacity of the Earth has come under tremendous pressure. Large-scale mining, massive industrialisation, intensive commercial agriculture and destruction of forests have given rise to unprecedented pollution of air, rivers, lakes and oceans, desertification and acidification of soil, declineinbio-diversity, contamination of groundwateraquifers, risein temperatures and erratic weather patterns. Soil-loss rate exceeds soil-formation rate at least by tenfold. Per capita availability of fresh water has declined by about 70% since 1950 while consumption is up by about 9 times. Air pollution has emerged as the most serious health hazard resulting in over seven million deaths per year. Anthropogenic greenhouse gases are resulting in global warming and climate change, threatening the life support system on planet Earth.

Despite the plethora of international negotiations, declarations and treaties since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the ground realities continue to deteriorate. The governments, NGOs and environmental experts have successfully converted a simple subject into a most complex matrix. Transition towards sustainability remains a distant dream. Under these circumstances, it would be worthwhile to look at the wisdom of our ancestors who lived in harmony with nature for thousands of years.

Based on comprehensive research, this book attempts to bring out the ground realities and the wisdom of our ancestors in a concise andcoherent mannertomitigatethis serious threat tohumanity.

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MOTHER COUNTRY

In the Wake of a Dream 2014

Summer 1947. Jamaican ex-serviceman Melbourne Welch stands at the corner of Effra Road and Rushworth Street in Brixton, south London, facing a tirade of abuse from the British Union of Fascists. It is a shocking contrast to the treatment he received three years earlier when grateful Britons welcomed the ‘loyal colonials’ who had cometohelpdefendthe Mother Countryfrom Nazityranny. How things had changed. Now out of uniform, and along with other non-white migrants, he and ‘his kind’ were seen as scroungers on the National Assistance; cheap labour occupying scarce housing; or salacious menonthe hunt for women of easy virtue.

“You helped us to win the war now come and help us rebuild the Mother Country.”

This sentiment of British Empire unity might have been apocryphal but it was inhaled like a breath of fresh air by many West Indians. They answered the call and arrived in Britain from the late 1940s on ships such as the SS Almanzora and SS Auriga, and the iconic Empire Windrush. Former servicemen, like Melbourne Welch, chose to stay in the country they had helped defend after being demobbed. But for many, the dream of a better life and boundless opportunities was tainted with discrimination andhostility.

While the characters that inhabit Mother Country may be fictional, their stories are not uncommon and are set against the backdrop of actual events that took place in Britain from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The story reflects how so many Britons reacted to Black migrants and how idioms such as “Keep Britain White” and “No (blacks)coloureds, noIrish” werecommonplace.

The narrative is rich, direct and laced with humour and pathos, but withoutbitterness.

Moving Voices traces the African oral tradition, through African American and Caribbean culture, to Black performance poetry in England, and examines the many factors which have shaped this oral poetry.

Twelve contemporary poets discuss their childhood and school experiences, how they became poets and who influenced them, how they write and where they have performed, their favourite poets and poems, what they write about and their advice to budding poets.

Aselectionof poems by each poet concludes eachchapter.

The poets include those born in the Caribbean – James Berry, Valerie Bloom, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, John Lyons and Cuban Redd; and those born in England – Adisa, Patience Agbabi, Michael Groce, Cynthia Hamilton, Asher Hoyles, Levi Tafari and Benjamin Zephaniah.

An accompanying CD contains a selection of recordings by each poet.

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NAOROJI: THE FIRST ASIAN MP

A Biography of Dadabhai Naoroji: India’s Patriot and Britain’s MP

1997

OCTOBER AFTERNOON

2012

Known as the “Grand Old Man of India”, Dadabhai Naoroji was Britain’s first Asian member of Parliament. This book charts his life from humble beginnings in Bombay, to the laying of the foundations of modern India. Even though he was a mentor to men such as Gandhi, his story is relatively unknown. This book serves to re-live his life storysothat the work he undertook both in India and in Britain can onceagain be appreciated.

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A collection of carefully crafted, layered, rich, subtle and resonant poems whichare fanciful, teasing and simultaneouslysombre.

“In these bold poems of desire, love, subjectivity and writing as the path, all stitched together on the strong thread of memory, Paulette Ramsay takes readers into the rich interior landscape of a poet exploringthe process andfindingjoy.”

OpalPalmerAdisa, author of UntilJudgement Comes

Published in 2012 to coincide with Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of independence, 1962-2012

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ONE PEOPLE MAYOR A Journey

2005

PROSPERO’S RETURN

Historical Essays on Race, Culture and British Society

1994

Sebert Graham’s laughter pervades this tale of a Jamaican immigrant who sailed to Britain in 1960. Moving with his family to a market town nestling in Buckinghamshire’s Chiltern Hills, he involved himself in youth work and community relations. Frustrated with local government red tape, he decided to stand as a town councillor, and a few years later was elected Mayor. He remains awed and humbled at the opportunity he was given to work for the whole community. His life work illustrates how much effort, often voluntary, has been invested into reinventing Britain as a multicultural land at peace withitself.

Born into a large and affectionate family in rural Jamaica, Sebert charmed his teachers, relatives, bully-boy peers and Army NCOs while he went his own rebellious and pioneering way. Moving with his family to a market town nestling in Buckinghamshire’s Chiltern Hills, he involved himself in youth work and community relations. Frustrated with local government red tape, he decided to stand as a town councillor, and a few years later was elected Mayor. He remains awed and humbled at the opportunity he was given to work forthe wholecommunity.

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This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature and meaning of race and racism in British society and the nature of British and English national identity. Using political, social and cultural sources, the author shows that many of the contemporary issues surrounding the position of Black minorities in British society havea long andcomplexhistory.

Areas as diverse as anthropology, eugenics, literary history and housing are discussed. In its rich employment of historical sources, the book shows the powerful strains of racial and national political thought in Britain. At the same time, it reveals the existence of an alternative liberal and radical tradition which can be drawn upon in the construction of alternative models of national identity which includeratherthanmarginalizeminorities.

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RAISE UP THE LOW, BRING DOWN THE

For over 25 years Asher has been composing poems and performing them in many different venues, including Glastonbury and Westminster Abbey. This book illustrates the variety of her style and themes and the CDs show that Asher’s passionate expression needs to be heard as well as read. She has run poetry workshops in schools, colleges and prisons, as well as teaching performance poetry for the last 16 years at Clean Break Theatre Company in Kentish Town. Asher works as a Learning Support Practitioner at NewVic SixthForm CollegeinNewham.

“Asher Hoyles brings poetry to you that is funny, moving, honest and true. I hear years of tradition meeting the modern and the relevant, passion and the voice of a woman who is in love with an art form. Her poems make me feel educated, cultured, alive and loved.”

BenjaminZephaniah

“Asher’s poetry is uplifting, weaving words and melodic lyrics into stories we can all relate to. Asher’s poems embrace Caribbean roots and traditions: a wonderful collection.” Zita Holbourne

“Asher’s poems bristle with the beauty and subtlety of Caribbean language in the context of contemporary London. Read and listen to the powerful ‘Dance in Your Yard’. They are a true force of conscious energy, while expressing the sensitivity and meaning of a dynamic now-times poet.” Chris Searle

“We definitely need more voices like Asher’s exploring the black British experience, especially for women, as Linton Kwesi Johnson has done for young men. I particularly like the poem ‘Hair’ and the poems specific to women’s experience.” Jean‘Binta’Breeze

Peter Ramrayka was born in what was then colonial British Guiana (nowGuyana). The grandson of indentured Indian labourers, he was brought up to believe that, despite his Indian cultural heritage, Britain was, infact, the‘MotherCountry’.

With a steely ambition to become a lawyer, he travelled to England in 1961 with the intention of returning ‘home’ once he had realised his dream. Fresh-faced and eager, he soon discovered that the ‘Mother Country’ was a place where people of colour faced discriminationand victimisation. The next 54 years wouldprovetobe avoyageof discovery.

He joinedthe RoyalAir Force as an optiontoboth work andstudy. In this environment, he was largely shielded from overt discrimination and soon adopted British cultural values and ways of doing things. This solid grounding led to exciting and successful careers and endeavours: the National Health Service; the Magistracy; political activist; Mission Director of a flying teaching eye hospital; British Executive Service Overseas volunteer; and international healthcare management consultant toformerBritishcolonies.

Peter Ramrayka’s autobiography tells the story of his fateful journey from village life in British Guiana, and his fortitude to address and overcome the challenges of life in Britain and promote British values andsystems abroad.

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2018

This collection of speeches provides an opportunity to benefit from the excellent intellect, research and reasoning that make the author one of the leading contemporary judicial and legal thinkers in the Caribbean.

DésiréeBernard went intopractice in Guyanaand soon held officein the Guyana Bar Association. It was here that she showed her leadership and interest in the broader legal picture. Through the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, she was engaged in the discussions on the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council and the development of Caribbean jurisprudence, thinking which was thefoundation ofthe Caribbean Court of Justice. She was elevatedtotheBenchin Guyanabecomingthe first woman to be so appointed, and rapidly rose to the post of Chief Justice, becoming the first woman in the British Commonwealth to hold that office. She later became Head of the Judiciary of Guyana when she was appointed to the post of Chancellor. Upon its inauguration, Désirée Bernard was the first and only female judge to sit on the Caribbean Court of Justice.

This collection is replete with case law and legal reasoning, and addresses topics which could guide judicial and legal deliberations on many issues, making them valuable as a research tool, but delightfully written, making reading pleasurable. She also examines the role of women, “the power behind the throne” in the home, the society and in the legal profession, with characteristic and incisive humour as well.

Contained herein are the distilled thoughts and examinations of one of the contemporary Caribbean’s finest legal minds. These writings are of historical significance in that many of them commemorate milestones in the evolution of Guyanese law, in particular, and CARICOMlaw, ingeneral.

It is important to acknowledge that much of the international legislation to which many of the world’s states are now signatories havebenefitedfrom thesterlingcontributions of DésiréeBernard.

“My admiration for this material is unbounded. I can give no higher recommendation to the reader.” Dennis Byron, President, Caribbean Courtof Justice

A collection of biographies of mixed-race figures from past and present. Historical biographies include Bob Marley, Mary Seacole and Fredrick Douglass, and contemporary figures include Shirley Bassey, Oona King MP and Cathy Tyson. A detailed introduction deals with key issues relating to this important subject. There is a select bibliography of books dealing with mixed race and of children’s books containing mixed-race characters. Includes 22 b/w photos; 15 b/willustrations

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RHYTHM PLAYED IN A FIRE

Aunt Hazel is a rock. She opens her home to the extended members of her family after the devastating Castries fire of 1948. These include her sister, her niece and her husband and daughter, and a number of hermuch older female cousins. Tensions are never far from the surface as the family members are forced to accept their newlivingconditions surrounded byneartotal destruction. The people of Castries struggle to rebuild their lives among the charred remains of the capital. The task is challenging but they are optimistic as they come to terms with their afflicted lives in colonial St Lucia.

However, the music of the island is ever present and provides a rhythmic threadthroughout thestory.

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At the age of eighteen, Quintel Jones is faced with situations and challenges that demand a hasty step into maturity and manhood. In coping with a sick mother and impoverished circumstances, he is forced to grapple with realities that areoftentough, whilemaintaining a heart for what is tender. Strong, determined and sometimes feeling battered, he stoically holds on to what are left of any dreams he harboured. He must fight for his mother’s life, ensure his own survival and find joy in the people helping to shape the outcome of his existence - an English journalist, a beautiful woman, an orphan boy and a curious benefactor are amongst those to whom he attributes his eventual breakthrough. There in Trinidad, the unglamorous yet compelling life of this young man blossoms with sumptuous intrigue, as Quintel battles head on with the painful issues of personal prejudices, poverty and love, social interaction andmanly awakening.

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The extraordinary poems in Ian McDonald’s new collection emerged as “blood emerges from a cut vein”. So the author describes the process of writing them in his Preface. This is his sixth collection of poems in a literary career which has gradually gained strength and recognition over the years. In his 80s, his creativity, far from diminishing, in this book reaches a new level of interest and inspiration. In this late flowering of new poems Ian McDonald has added a significant dimension to his work. The poems describe a full range of his experiences of love, sadness, family, ordinary people and their troubles and triumphs, the places he has known and loved and above all his wife’s garden and the great Essequibo river, the joys and bereavements and mysteries we all encounter, the daily wonders of his long life. A special dimension of the poems is the love he wishes to express for his wife, Mary. As he writes, “She has for long been a large part of my life. How does one convey plainly what means nearly everything? What would a red thing be without the red? Length and breadth measured without depth? I am sad that a time must come soon enough when I will die and leave her. That distils some of the poetry, even those poems not about her. I want her to know what I have felt, that does not die. The poetry gives shapetonothingness. I see hernow, dancing by theriver welove.”

River Dancer is an important addition to Ian McDonald’s work and a noteworthycontributionto Guyanese/Caribbean poetry.

Send Out You Hand is the fictional story that follows the intersecting contemporary lives of business men and women, socio-political activists and academics as they attempt to chart a new course towards Caribbean regional unity. The failed West Indies Federation (1958-1962) provides the political background and the less-thansuccessful present efforts of politicians at regional integration provide impetus for creative thinking, new approaches, different industries andnewculturalpossibilities.

The man-woman relationships of middle class mobile men and women – Black, White, Rastafari and Christian – are examined around issues of love, sex, fidelity, health, race and relocation ... sometimes in detail. The action takes place across six Caribbean countries providing a galloping travelogue experience through the region where the motivations of various sectors of the society are explored.

Thereis humour andmusic andcricket andfood!

"In this his first novel, O'Marde joins the ranks of those undaunted Caribbean regionalists who use their unique writing skills to put forward a serious idea while keeping the reader thoroughly entertained. His language is rich and mature; his dream of ‘One Caribbean’ refreshingly pragmatic." Alwin Bully, PhD, Former UNESCOAdvisorfor Cultureinthe Caribbean "... exciting reading and mature thinking wrapped in a Caribbean flavour ... This should be compulsory reading as the basis of regional thought, urgent dialogue and immediate action." Cuthwin Lake, FRCS,Antigua andBarbuda

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SHRIDATH RAMPHAL

The Commonwealth and the World

2009

This anthology of essays provides glimpses of a remarkable career and has been written by persons who worked with Shridath Ramphal or have researched his many contributions to the Caribbean, the Commonwealth and the global community, and to internationalism.

Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal grew up in Guyana in the colonial era to becometheleadingspokesmanof thefree, independent, developing worldinthelast quarter of the 20thcentury.

For an unequalled stint of 15 years from 1975 to 1990), he was Secretary-General ofthe Commonwealth of Nations. Heserved on a succession of international commissions, led by Willy Brandt, GroHarlem Brundtland, and Olof Palme and co-chaired one with Ingvar Carlsson.

Having been a key player in bringing an end to Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and institutional racism in Southern Rhodesia, hespentmuch of his last five years as Secretary-General, until 1990, in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. He had the satisfaction of playing a part in Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, and Namibia’s independence the following month.

Sonny left the Commonwealth Secretariat as a still youthful 61. He was Chancellor of the Universities of Guyana and Warwick, and the University of the West Indies, and he went on to chair the West Indian Commission which charted a future for the Caribbean region in the 21st century, and he headed the regional negotiating machinery which sought a unified Caribbean trading response to the European Community, the United States and the World Trade Organisation. At the age of 79, he successfully led Guyana’s legal team before a United Nations Law of the Sea Tribunal that peacefullysettledthemaritime boundary withSuriname.

Mixed race 30-year-old Sarah is dumped by her Muslim boyfriend and finds herself single once again. Fed up with being alone, she gives herself one year to find a man. With the help of friends Georgina, the happily married blonde, and Jacquie, the single Black diva, 'singleholic' Sarah learns to alter her game with hilarious consequences.

Chibu, the Nigerian banker, is sexy but Arthur, the plum English Internet King, is charming. And will Sam, the tanned, trendy toy-boy, everring?

Join singleholic Sarah on a sassy, multicultural dating spree across London. She goes from dancing through fountains at Somerset House to having a boogie in bars in Brixton. Singleholic plays with race like never before and toys with all those questions you’ve always been afraidtoask.

Singleholic is a hilarious 'Sex & the City' adventure which introduces multiculturalism to chick-lit. Until now, the appeal of multicultural London has beenconfinedtoliterary novels like White Teeth

In the spirit of Bridget Jones, Singleholic tracks Sarah’s search for a husband, but Sarah is mixed-race and she is a professional success. Black guys, white guys … who makes the better husband? And whois betterinbed?

“Wonderfully relatable and adorably funny! A revolutionary education on relationships, where you discover the most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”ZaraahAbrahams, Actor

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Errol Walton Barrow was among the dominant figures in the political life of Barbados for more than two decades. His contribution to the economic development of Barbados has never been in doubt, acknowledged evenby his critics.

He re-shaped the economic relationships among the Englishspeaking Caribbean countries by leading the formation, first, of the Caribbean Free Trade Area CARIFTA) and, later, the much broader Caribbean CommunityandCommonMarket CARICOM).

Errol Barrow preached a gospel of economic self-reliance for the English Caribbean, and self-respect for the Black man in Barbados andbeyond.

This collection represents a portion of some his significant speeches, made overthe years, and reflects the kind of philosophy andthinking that guided his actions bothinand out of government.

The articles and speeches in this book represent a poignant collection of thoughts and ideas which address the challenge of sustainable development; a major concern of the international communityatthis time.

The challenges posed by climate change and the innovations required to balance economic, human and environmental considerations, not to mention taking into account issues of inclusion and equity, require a change of mind-set, willingness to adapt and a disposition to adopt and customise new ways of thinking, behaving and acting to achieve more desirable results. These are some of the considerations which make sustainable development a formidable challenge; andthese issues are exploredinthis thoughtful book.

Societies unwilling or unable to adapt to meet the challenges of sustainable development will be left behind and perhaps face costly consequences. However, for those societies willing to meet the challenges head-on, there are numerous approaches that can be takento achievedesirableoutcomes.

Written from the point of view of the Caribbean, small island developing states and the developing and emerging world, this collection focuses on sustainable development solutions through human imagination, innovation, collaboration, participation and engagement.

Sustainable Development: Thinking it Through; Making it Happen is an important contribution to ideas, but it also shares with the reader practicalapproaches tomakesustainable development a reality.

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This is an autobiography of the life, times and adventures of Maxie Alphonso Hayles, a community and human rights activist who eventually settled in Birmingham, England where he has lived and worked for the past fifty-six years after his early Jamaican upbringing. Maxie Hayles has spent most of his adult life fighting for social justice and equality both in Britain and abroad and has achieved a lot in that time. As a devout Christian with a firm belief in humanity, a belief underpinned by his deep spiritual values and principles, Maxie has never wavered from ‘the struggles’ in wanting to make the world a better place, as he takes it to the maximum level.

Along the way there have been many adversities filled with trials and tribulations which have tested Maxie’s strength and resolve at times to the limit. However, he has managed to overcome these and movedon withsheerdetermination, faith andstrength of character.

Robert Wedderburn was one of the key campaigners against slavery at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1762 in Jamaica of a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother. At the age of sixteen he went to sea and ended up in England, where he became a tailor and eventually joined a radical political group called theSpenceans.

Wedderburn became famous for the revolutionary rhetoric with which he entertained and educated the crowds at Hopkins Street Chapel. He campaigned for equality in England, the land to be restored to the people, and freedom for the slaves in the West Indies.

Much of the Black experience in Britain, however, has been hidden from history. This book will help rectify the situation in an entertaining and informative way. It tells the story of Wedderburn’s childhood in Jamaica and his experience of slavery, his conversion to Methodism in England and then his commitment to radical politics, which landed him in prison for two years. The Home Secretary called him a ‘notorious firebrand’ and his oratory was so powerful that he was put onthe Government’s secret list of 33 leading reformers.

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Balgobin is an elusive and often overlooked character in IndianGuyanese folklore. The mystery that surrounds him is curious given that his story has been in existence since the first arrival of Indians into what was then British Guiana in 1838. Frequently portrayed as an unintelligent schoolboy, Balgobin confounds his educators by scraping through every test and every challenge. To his classmates, however,heis oftenthehero of the day.

The Balgobin Saga provides a re-introduction to this lovable character. It also reflects the lives of Indian immigrants in the first half of the 19th century and illustrates how the Indian-Guyanese dealt withthetraumas andchallenges of displacement.

George Lombardi, MD

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THE BELIEVERS

The Hidden World of

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THE CAPITALIST PARTY MANIFESTO

Defects within our democracy and what we can do to change it!

2020

The Capitalist Party Manifesto delves into the inherent faults of the political systems and democracies around the world that are adversely affected by, among others, the prevalence of career politicians, influence from powerful pressure groups, revolving door politics andcorruption. Christopher Morrall identifies the reasons why democracy breaks down and why it cannot succeed in its current format.

Presented in concise chapters, the author provides workable solutions and new theories, including the wider participation in politics at alllevels andthe revamping of theelections process.

As Morrall states in his Foreword, “There has never been a better time to stand up and be counted and seek change in what is becoming astagnant parliamentarysystem.” 216 x 138mm 60 pages

Tracing the history and development of Western racism, the ideology which underpins it, and the power which makes it operable.

After a thorough critique of the ideology’s basic assumptions, the author demonstrates that far from being perpetual imitators, Black people created and gave to Europe the beginnings of the latter’s civilisation. With historical evidence, he shows how Black people pioneered the development of science, transmitted it to Europeans throughtheGreeks and …

The manifestation and symptoms of racial discrimination against Black people may differ from one country to the other, but the author demonstrates that the origin and development of this racial problem are either identical or at least very similar. This in-depth analysis traces the history and development of Western racism, the ideology which underpins it, and the power which makes it operable.

Particularly aimed at schools, colleges and universities, this important book is a major contribution to multicultural education studies. Includes 14 black & whiteimages

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THE LIVES AND WORK OF TWO INDOTRINIDADIANS Influences of Indentureship, Evangelisation and Education

Aroundthirty-five per cent ofTrinidad andTobago’s population are of Indian descent. From 1845 to 1917, indentured labourers from India arrived in the former British colony to address the labour shortages followingthe abolition of slavery in 1838.

This book examines the lives and work of two descendants of Indian indenturedimmigrants wholivedand workedinthe northof Trinidad.

Samuel Ramsaran and Leslie Sankarsingh – father-in-law and sonin-law respectively – were raised in the Christian tradition, but each madedifferent lifechoices intheircareers.

The colonial rulers were unconcerned with the welfare of, first, the enslaved Africans and, later, the indentured Indian labourers. It was, therefore, fortuitous that the Canadian Presbyterian missionaries intervened to improve the lives of, in particular, the subjugated East Indian population. Baptism into the Christian faith, however, was a requirement in order to receive a formal education, and it was this directivethat providedthefirst steps towards abetter way of life.

Reverend Samuel Ramsaran believed that relating the Christian Gospel to the local culture had to be redefined. He was aware that the Gospel should be communicated in a meaningful way to the East Indiancommunity.

Leslie Sankarsingh, on the other hand, was opposed to a teaching career imposed upon him by the Church authorities. Instead, he turnedtothe worldof business and was alsoa prolific writer of poetry inthe vein of the Romantic English poets.

The work of these two Indo-Trinidadians and, indeed, many of their contemporaries, was to be a significant contribution to an emerging independent nation.

This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of the African-Guyanese from the time of their arrival in what were then the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice in the first half of the seventeenth century, to the present day. Most African-Guyanese today are descendants of enslaved Africans who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – the forced migration of millions of Africans, largely from West Africa to the Americas, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. These captives were not uncivilised barbarians, as some European writers assumed and asserted. Rather, they were members of societies which had been distinguished by significant achievements. They were, therefore, able to make a valuable contribution to the land to which they were takenagainsttheir will aftera traumatic journey across theAtlantic.

Themes in African-Guyanese History seeks to deal in a more or less balanced way with the four phases into which historians have often divided Guyanese history, namely: the pre-Emancipation period, which ended in 1838; the post-Emancipation period, in the remainder of the nineteenth century; the pre-Independence period, up to 1966; and the post-Independence period for the remainder of thetwentiethcentury.

This book is not a history of the entire African-Guyanese experience. There is certainly scope for the publication of a supplementary volume dealing primarily withsocial andcultural history.

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This easy-to-use reference book includes more than 2,500 names and what they mean. It is claimed that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion, so now, more than ever, there is a need for a publication with the sole purpose of providing a suitable point from whichtostart.

is a sensitive and disturbed child, growing up on the estate of her white guardian in British Guiana. She is slowly and painfully awakened to a society in turmoil, in which both Black and white are struggling to reassert their roles during the period of economic instabilitypriortotheFirst WorldWar. As thechild of aloveless union between Black and white, the situation is even more problematic. Only after a desperate early marriage generates a series of tragic events, does Angela learn to understand the ultimate possibilities of herown displacedidentity.

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The street disturbances of 1981 heightened the public debate on race relations throughout Britain. But the resulting tendency was to concentrate on treating the symptoms rather than the causes. Covering a range of subjects including education, housing and social services, this book gives a concise review of the issues underlying the development of the plight of Black people inBritain.

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This second volume examines the absence of policies directed at the needs of the Black communities, and argues that the Thatcher revolution, with its emphasis on individualism and its rejection of community, did not only affect white society, but had a traumatic affect on the development of Britain’s multi-coloured society. It concludes with aBlack agendafortheyear 2000.

The People’s Progressive Party of Guyana, 1950-1992: An Oral History is a collection of twenty-seven interviews with members and opponents) of the party, and with commentators who observed the party closely for a long time. Interviewees include founding party members such as Dr Cheddi Jagan and his wife, Janet, Ashton Chase, Eusi Kwayana, Martin Carter, Eric Huntley, and commentators from the wider Caribbean such as Richard Hart, Lloyd Best, George Lamming and George Belle, as well as independent Guyanese observers such as Father Andrew Morrison, a Roman Catholic priest, Randolph George, former Anglican Bishop of Guyana, and David de Caires, a national newspaper editor. From such people, one gets a many-sided view of the origins, crises and personalities of the party, and of issues of class, colour and ethnicity which, along with external Cold War factors, played a crucial role in the party’s exclusion from power for most of the second half of the twentieth century. The fate of the PPP also vividly illustrates the shift in hegemonic power from Britain to the United States, after the Second World War, especially where the Caribbean and Latin America are concerned. The informal oral medium of the interview makes for a lively text that is more willing to trade punches than staid academic writing. The People’s Progressive Party of Guyana, 19501992: An Oral History conveys the insights of academic writing in a fresh, readable and entertaining format.

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THE USA IN SOUTH AMERICA and Other Essays

This is an account of a timid village boy, Victor Waldron, who decided to take the giant step of moving to London from his home in Plaisance, British Guiana. Arriving in 1959, the sudden culture shock brought many complications: Long winter months and the wearing of coats and warm clothing, the difficulty of obtaining accommodation, and the obstacle of “No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs”. It was a time of working with people who resented the arrival of immigrants, and having to contend with their bigotry. This book reflects upon the experiences and intrigues of those times and beyond. It tells of the struggle for survival and the desire to succeed; of shattered dreams and aspirations that were never accomplished; and the problems of raising three children in an often hostile environment. Most of all, it tells of the changing times and pace of London through the eyes of a man whocame, andsaw, andsettled.

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This collection of essays begins and ends with Cheddi Jagan’s revelation of political and electoral corruption in Guyana, and his moving sense of the plight of Guyanese people under the illegal regime of the PNC. The maladministration and kleptomania which Dr Jagan saw as the defining features of the PNC Government were compoundedby ColdWarpolitics. 30 black & white plates

“... thereis no Caribbeanleader who has beensofrequentlycheated of office; none who has been so grossly misrepresented.” – George Lamming

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THE WEB OF TRADITION

Uses of Allusion in V.S. Naipaul’s Fiction

1987

THE WONDERFUL YOU

Find your purpose and live the life of your dreams... now

2016

A comprehensive study of the fiction of V.S. Naipaul including The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River. As well as providing a natural introduction to Naipaul’s fiction, it attempts to locate the precise nature of the tradition to which Naipaul belongs through an examination of his use of literary and cultural allusion. It considers the part played in his fiction by such diverse influences as Hindu myth, classical and imperialistic writings, calypso and Hollywoodcinema.

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This innovative self-help book is designed to help you find your purpose and use your unique gifts and talents to create your ideal life. Based on practical experience, inspirational case studies, metaphysical insights and cutting-edge research, the author provides tried-and-tested guidance to help you achieve extraordinary success in all areas of yourlife.

Know whoyouREALLY are

Live yourlifefrom aplace of highself-esteem

Set goals toturn your vision intoreality

Banishfearanddevelopself-empoweringbeliefs

Forgiveandlet goof negative emotions

Experiencehappiness from thedaily practice of gratitude Develop resilienceskills toovercome adversities

Knowledge is only powerful when it is used. Read this book with an Openmindandtransform your life.

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This diverse mix of writings reflect an eclectic life and ministry in which a mixed-portfolio of roles has been an ever-present companion.

Be challenged by what you read. Agree, disagree, argue, correct; but most of all, enjoy!

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The title of this book is a pastiche of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey (1879) and Graham Greene’s Travels with my Aunt (1970), neither reference is literal but nonetheless some parallels may be drawn.

Travels with a Husband is a journey about friendships and memories, about marriage, companionship and work, an autobiography in prose, verse and drawings, a travelogue, and an adventureinstyle.

The authors have journeyed as reluctant tourists rather than as voyeurs and recall their encounters from Australia, India, Namibia, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Most, but not all, of their voyages have been fitted around work related activities.

This book is also autobiographical because it records a creative and intellectual partnership of over two decades captured through essays, vignettes, poetry, doggerel, drawings and individualised postcards. Some of the verse makes no pretence at poetry but are nonsense rhyme, inscribing in memory a place, event, people or time.

Because it deals with travels over two decades, it is also about a development of styles and perception over this period. Patricia Mohammed's contributions arereflectiveof history orsocial attitudes. Rex Dixon, in turn, interprets, sometimes with humour, events and situations with different artistic nuances andmediums.

Illustratedthroughout with nearlyone hundred original works of art

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TRIALS OF A TRIAL LAWYER 2021

TRIUMPH FOR UNCLOS

The Guyana-Suriname Maritime Arbitration A Compilation & Commentary

2008

From as early as he could remember, Derick Sylvester had set his sights on becoming a lawyer and to fight injustice. Despite the most humble beginnings, his passion, drive and sheer grit propelled him to achievingthis goal.

He was born and raised in the Eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada and read law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and also at the HughWooding LawSchoolinTrinidadand Tobago. Throughout this autobiography, Sylvester presents unique insights into the trial process and he reflects upon the many cases in which he has been involved. One such case being his involvement in the resentencing of those convicted of murder in the Maurice Bishop MurderTrial.

In addition to his work as an Attorney-at-Law, Derick Sylvester is an active and effective participant in public service in Grenada. He served as Chairman of the Allied Health Professional Council, and the Grenada Football Association Disciplinary Appeals Committee; he was Director of the Maurice Bishop International Airport Board, and the National Housing Authority Board; and from 2013 to 2018, he served as Chairman of the Public Service Commission of Grenada.

Trials of a Trial Lawyer traces the journey of Derick Sylvester’s life to date and explores the many experiences that have influenced his progression into the lawyer we see today. Written in his own words, this autobiography is emotive, engaging and reflects his empathy for the human condition, his passion for the law and his never-ending questforjustice.

The maritime dispute between Guyana and Suriname – neighbours on the South American coast – which came to a head with the resort to force by Suriname in 2000, threatened not only relations between the two countries but also the peace and stability of the wider maritime area of the Caribbean. It specifically endangered the ‘equitable and efficient’ utilisation of the resources of the GuyanaSuriname marine basin. That dispute was settled by Arbitration under UNCLOS – the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea –afterathree year legalprocess.

This book tells the story of that dispute between Britain and Holland as the metropoles of Guyana and Suriname, and then between the neighbours themselves as they became independent. It explains the process of peacefulsettlement in 2007through arbitration, and of the triumph of UNCLOS in enabling it. It is a story over four centuries from Raleigh and the ‘wild Guiana coast’ to the ascendancy of the legal regimeof theseas that UNCLOSrepresents.

UNCLOS was described at its inception in 1982, as ‘A Constitution for the Oceans’. It both codified customary international law and enhanced its maritime reach. It was specially innovative in regard to the peaceful settlement of disputes between States. Each time a maritime dispute is settled under UNCLOS the rule of international law is strengthened. Where, as here, it is resolved on the basis of equity andscholarship, thetriumph of UNCLOSis enduring.

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UNDER BASIL LEAVES An Anthology of

In this debut collection, Paulette Ramsay addresses the "unsanctioned" layers of experience that are often hidden behind social codes and cloaks of respectability. Their layered wit is one of the most engaging features of these poems that range over diverse subjects – childhood memories, politics, religion, women's concerns, life and death, "man and woman story". Ramsay's ironic, often hilarious vision illuminates everyday relationships and experiences from fresh perspectives that will delight her readers. Readers will equally enjoy the range of voices, from folk to polemic, that add dramatomuch of thecollection.

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In this, her fourth volume of poems, tight-woven, visceral, surreal and intellectual, Rajandaye Ramkissooon-Chen has continued her legacy of probing research into the experiences, varied and sometimes painful, of immigrants from India to Trinidad. She delves into their customs, their religions and philosophy and pays veneration to ancestral pioneers. She also writes passionately about her parents and her people in Trinidad where she was born and where she practises her medical profession. Her poems are crisp, the sentences short-limned. Imagery, metaphor and factual information arecombined in amasterymeld of truth andperception.

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Val’s Bridge is the story of a Black woman who followed her dreams from the age of six years old. She was aware very early on that it would take more than determination and ambition to pursue her goals, especially when the going got tough. This is her fascinating journalof themajorepisodes inher journey of life.

“Fascinating, inspiring … Val has put into context several aspects of her journey that are typical of people who are a part of the Black Diaspora. A wonderful read.” Whit Stennett, Councillor and former Mayorof Trafford

“Valerie gives an in-depth and fascinating insight into a world few people see. It is all the more interesting written from the perspective of a young Black woman at a time when few Black people were in the RAF.”Deanne Heron, author

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WakePeopleWakeis asocio-anthropologicalstudyof the wakeand waking habits that early Tobago folk practiced during their funerary rites. The study not only deals with these people and their rituals, it also presents a perspective of the way othertribes and earlypeoples worldwide dealt with death and the hereafter. It also provides an insight into the way superstition and the supernatural constantly played a partinthesecustoms.

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2017

West Indian History and Literature offers a fresh view byWest Indian authors themselves of a region known mainly for delights of its sun, sand and sea. The book not only examines problems of division in racial, ethnic, class and colour relations in the Anglophone Caribbean, it also reveals regional resources of imagination and creativity that have already produced, in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul,two Nobellaureates in literature. While the volume recalls rare, perhaps forgotten texts by authors such as Eric Walrond (Tropic Death), Claude McKay (Home to Harlem) and memoirs by Joyce Gladwell (Brown Face Big Master), Lorna Goodison (From Harvey River) and Rachel Manley (Horses in her Hair), most chapters delve into works, mainly of fiction or poetry, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day; and although, as elsewhere, women writers appeared long after male authors in the Caribbean, of eighty-one authors considered in the volume, twentynine are women.

“In this sparkling collection, Frank Birbalsingh introduces us to an astonishing range of new work in the history and literature of the English-speaking Caribbean. What arises is a work of art in its own right. Birbalsingh allows us to see and measure the imaginative life of the Caribbean region and its diaspora up to the early twenty-first century.”

Richard Drayton is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King’s College,London University

“In many ways, West Indian History and Literature is a report from the trenches of a lifetime of scholarship and commentary which showcases Birbalsingh’s critical acumen as an insightful and deeply informed reviewer who lucidly and intelligently situates texts within their contexts, traverses various genres, and effectively illuminates what George Lamming refers to as ‘the sad and hopeful epic of West Indianhistory.’”

Norval Edwards is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literatures inEnglish, Universityof theWest Indies, Mona Campus

THE WEST INDIANS

Portrait of a People

2009

Before the arrival of Europeans in the West Indies in the 15th century, the region was inhabited by Amerindian peoples – Caribs andArawaks. But within a decade of their arrival, the Europeans had exterminated most of the indigenous peoples and had begun to replacethem with enslavedAfricans.

Renowned Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian, Gilberto Freyre stated that when the Africans arrived in the ‘New World’ they ceased being African. Instead, they were ‘West Indian Blacks’ who were slaves. They were broken and battered, and were being moulded into what the Europeans required – labour for their plantations.

This work draws from history, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature and culture, and examines Freyre’s contention. It also looks at theforces andmethods used by theEuropeans in what the author calls the “de-Africanisation of the Africans” and the creation of the West Indians.

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Book Title & Year Synopsis / Blurb

2010

Currently, the most powerful man in the world is Barack Obama, and some people in the media industry refer to Oprah as the most powerful woman in the world, so for the first time, being Black and successful isn’t just about how well you can dance, sing or run. From Zadie Smith to Lewis Hamilton, and Tiger Woods to Kanya King, Black peoplearesucceedinginareas that the world neverexpected. Yet there’s a flipside to all this: around 70 per cent of teenagers murdered in London are Black; half of all Black families are headed by a single parent; and 12 per cent of the UK prison population is Black.

This book is a bold, fresh and honest approach to the problems that exist inside the Black community right now. While we might not like to admit it, there are problems. From the amusing to the violent, and from the silly to the painful, this book does what so many people can’t seem to get right – it defines what being Black is, and what beingBlack isn’t.

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The revolutionary act of imprinting gender into Caribbean thought is celebrated by Patricia Mohammed as she brings together decades worth of her critical essays that have influenced directions in feminism and in social thinking. A primary player in an ever-evolving Caribbean gender discourse for over four decades, Mohammed has produced an interdisciplinary manifesto that establishes founding moments and ongoing debates in gender and feminist theory; she marks out thematic shifts in academia and activism, including the area of masculinity, that inform feminist political strategy in the region.

Juxtaposing theoretical ideas with empirical flows of data, her strategic arrangement of this collection allows the reader to see the past and future as synonymous happenings, as temporal movements that rely on each other. Demonstrating a disciplinary promiscuity that is the cornerstone of her gender scholarship, the essays move between historical, biographical, popular culture and visual lens, revealing an intersectional analysis that is central to understanding of this regionandtothecurrent globalcondition.

Writing Gender into the Caribbean: Selected Essays from 19882020, establishes a chronology that is faithful to the evolving theoretical concepts and ideas in the field of gender and development studies, while demonstrating that collaborative affinities across shared yet different histories remain the backbone of the ongoing feminist project of reconstructing knowledge. In the face of narratives that cast shadows on the value of evolutionary progress, Mohammed encourages us to take pause and recognise how far gender scholars and feminists have come in leaving the world more genderequitablethan wefoundit.

“This collection takes us on a journey of exploration whose compass is feminist thought, and whose goal is a better understanding of the centrality of gender roles and relations in Caribbean society. This [book] offers us an important and exciting intellectual history by one of the region’s foremost scholar-activists.” Aisha Khan, Professor of Anthropology, NewYork University

“Apowerful analysis of Anglo-Caribbeanfeminist thinkingdrawing on four decades of feminist activism and scholarship. This book highlights the importance of revisiting past scholarship, demonstrating how rethinking past work is important for all of us who struggle with new and old thoughts as we continue contributing to future gender scholarship, debate and policy-making.” Jane Parpart, Professor, Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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