!Happy Emancipation Day!

!Happy Emancipation Day!

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...
Adrift & Ablaze

Adrift & Ablaze

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)...
All My Life

All My Life

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...

Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankel)

“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....

Book Review: Babouk: Voices of Resistance (Guy Endore)

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...

Book Review: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

“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,...

Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

“… 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...

Book Review: Capitalism and Slavery (Dr. Eric Williams)

“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...
Poetry Corner

Poetry Corner

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...

Book Review: Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)

“ …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,...

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