Aug 1, 2023
Today, August 1st, is a very special day for all people in the English-speaking Caribbean. It marks the 189th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. This so-called emancipation proclamation heralded the death knell of the inhumane and barabric...
Jul 26, 2023
This week the rough patch I have been going through culminated in a new nadir. I finally reached the bottom of the rock in my life (or at least it feels that way). The only consolation I have is that the ground that I stand on seems firm again (rock solid literally)...
Jul 15, 2023
These past weeks and months have been tough both personally and professionally. Sometimes it has honestly felt as if everything is falling apart, with one setback coming on the heels of another. Yet thankfully I have not felt like despairing. I am keenly aware that...
Jul 9, 2023
“Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.” These are some of the wise words that have lingered with me after reading this profound book of wisdom and insight into human life....
Jul 4, 2023
I must confess that Babouk: Voices of Resistance confounded me. Before reading this intriguingly titled novel, my interest was piqued because of the subject matter, the Haitian Revolution, and the genre, historical fiction. I expected this novel to surely leave a...
Jun 27, 2023
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” The Catcher in the Rye is a colorful rant cum novel written from the perspective of a spoiled,...
Jun 22, 2023
“… minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.” I finished the novel, All the Light We Cannot See in just 6 days! From...
Jun 7, 2023
“The capitalists had first encouraged West Indian slavery and then helped to destroy it. When British capitalism depended on the West Indies, they ignored slavery or defended it. When British capitalism found the West Indian monopoly a nuisance, they destroyed West...
Jun 4, 2023
Recently I did something that I have never done before in my life. While I was in Rwanda on a work-related trip, I attended a Spoken Word event and at the urging of a friend, performed two of my poems (Exile & Maelstrom of Heartache). It was the first time that I...
May 29, 2023
“ …When a handshake passes the elbow it becomes another thing.” Arrow of God, by critically acclaimed Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is an allegory about the struggle between tradition and modernism in colonial Nigeria, told through the lens of an Igbo fetish priest,...
