Rawle Gibbons: breaking down the Ivory Tower
“The energies of the mas, of steelband, of Hosay, these energies have all been politicised, because they have all been sites of...
Marooned? Guadeloupe’s Jean-Claude Flamand
When Martiniquan Euzhan Palcy’s Rue Cases Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley) appeared in 1983, it seemed that French Caribbean cinema was all...
Have her cake and eat it | Classic | Last word
Everybody thinks their grandmother makes the best black cake. They are wrong, since I can say with all surety that my grandmother made the...
Ibrahim Ferrer: Bolero Ultimo
The voice of a 20th-century Caribbean dream finally fell silent back in August, when the 78-year-old Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer died...