Writing On The Sea
An Historical Overview of Yachting in the Lesser Antilles in the 20th Century, as Revealed in Bibliographical Highlights, Part I, by Richard Dey.

The following publications were cited in the text of the article by Mr. Dey published in the December 1999 issue of the Caribbean Compass:
John MacGregor, (The) Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy, (1868)
W. P. Talboys, West India Pickles, (1875)
Susan de Forest Day, The Cruise of the Scythian in the West Indies, (1899) (N/A)
Anson Phelps Stokes, Cruising in the West Indies, [Second Edition (1902-03)]
Frederick A. Fenger, Alone in the Caribbean, (1917) (N/A)
Frederick A. Fenger, The Cruise of the Diablesse, (1926)
Irving and Exy Johnson, Westward Bound in the Schooner "Yankee", (1936)
Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, Stars to Windward, (1938)
Dennis Puleston, Blue Water Vagabond, (1939)
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus, (1939)
Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, (1942)
Carleton Mitchell, Islands to Windward, (1948)
E. A. Pye, Red Mains'l, (1953)
Carleton Mitchell, Isles of the Caribbees, (1966)
John Rousmaniere, The Golden Pastime, (1986)
All of the above titles are available through Barnes and Noble (used books), website: www.bn.com except those marked (N/A)

Richard Allsopp
Dictionary of Carbbean English Usage (Oxford Univ. Press - ISBN 0-19-866152-5)
Richard Allsopp is a Professor at the University of the West Indies - remarkable praise from the English Magazine THE ECONOMIST (June 29,1996 page 88)

Poet from the Caribbean
Derek Walcott is not the first author of Caribbean origin to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1960 the poet Saint-John Perse (the pseudonym for Marie Rene Auguste Alexis Saint-Leger) was the first literary writer from the Caribbean to be awarded this prestigious prize. Saint-John Perse was born in 1887 on the family-owned St.-Leger-Les Feuilles Island, across from Guadeloupe. He left the French Caribbean island for France just before the turn of the century. After he studied law, he entered the French diplomatic service and later worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Saint-John Perse is perhaps best known for his poetic cycle Eloges (literally Eulogies), an elaborate evocation of the small Caribbean islands of his youth. He died in France in 1975. per Aart G. Broek, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (from a letter to the editor published in the November 16, 1992 issue of Time magazine.

DEREK WALCOTT

DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN, AND OTHER PLAYS.
Published N. Y., FARRAR, STRAUS 1970 326 P.
ISBN/ISSN 0374143684
Other TITLES : TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS

A few links to more on Derek Walcott at Judith Corea's (The Carib Queen)

SAINT-JOHN PERSE, 1887-1975
nom-de-plume of Marie Rene Auguste Alexis Saint-Leger

Chronique by St.-John Perse / translation by Robert Fitzgerald.

Bilingual ed. Published New York : Pantheon Books, 1961. 60 p. ;28 cm.
SERIES 1) Bollingen series. 69

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Exil / [by] Saint-John Perse; edited by Roger Little.
Published London : Athlone Press, 1973. - xi, 119 p. ;21 cm.
Notes 1) French text, English introd. and notes.
2) Bibliography: p. 118-119.
ISBN/ISSN 0485147068: 0485127067

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UNI TITLE Poems. English & French. Selections

Selected poems / Saint-John Perse ; edited by Mary Ann Caws.
Published New York : New Directions, c1982. xiii, 143 p. ;21 cm.
NOTES 1) English and French.
ISBN/ISSN 0811208559 (pbk.)

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Excerpt from Islands magazine August 1999 issue
Islands Publishing Company, P.O. Box 4728, Santa Barbara, CA 93140-4728, USA
phone: (805) 745-7100 Fax: (805) 745-7102 email: islands@islandsmag.com
website: www.islandsmag.com

Reviews - All in the Families

A Caribbean writer from an earlier generation, Maryse Conde, was born in Guadeloupe in 1937 but left that island at the age of 16 to study in Paris. she spent years teaching and writing in various African nations and the United States, and most of her fiction has been politically oriented. But her latest and perhaps most ambitious novel, Windward Heights (Soho, $24), is a retelling of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, set mostly in Guadeloupe in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Excerpt from Islands magazine August 1998 issue

Reviews - Far Side of Paradise

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Excerpt from the Herald Newspaper
c Copyright CANA - Caribbean News Agency

Trinidadian novelist wins Commonwealth book prize

Lovelace, Earl, 1935-

While Gods are Falling
The Dragon Can't Dance
The Schoolmaster - published London : Collins, 1968. 224 p. ;21 cm.

The Wine of Astonishment

The Wine of Astonishment, a novel written by Earl Lovelace, is the story of a community in Trinidad in the early 1900's who are struggling to obtain the freedom to practice as Spiritual Baptists, and in a way, to obtain respect as human beings. Two of the central characters, Bee and Eva, seek these freedoms, enduring hardships and trials while trying to hold their family together. It is a story about blacks facing segregation and discrimination in a city where European government has taken over. Bee and Eva and the rest of the community believe that "God will not put on a people more than they can bear."

Their faith in God and their naive belief that people are intrinsically good give them their strength to live and to keep fighting. The events in the book may seem familiar to all of us. The idea of disunity in the black community is embodied in the character of Ivan Morton, a politician. The idea of the disillusionment of youth is represented by the tragic character of Bolo. The theme of redemption through suffering speaks to all of us and may give hope to the oppressed everywhere.

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Dear Mr. Filman, I saw on your Caribbean authors web page that you wanted suggestions for omitted authors. One you might consider is Matthew Phipps Shiel [born Shiell] (1865-1947.) Shiel was born on Montserrat, but moved to England in the 1880s. He wrote 30+ books from 1895-1937, then spent the last decade of his life working on _Jesus_, which he described as a truer translation of the Book of Luke from the original Greek, with commentary.

His most famous novel was _The Purple Cloud_ (1901) which has been described as the best of all last man novels and one of the few contemporary works of science fiction comparable to the best of H. G. Wells. This was loosely filmed as _The World, the Flesh and the Devil_ (MGM, 1959) starring Harry Belafonte.

For more information on Shiel, see 'The First West Indian Novelist' by Charlesworth Ross, 'Caribbean Quarterly', Vol. 14, No. 4, Dec 1968, 56-60. Alan Gullette's web pages have a good short essay & bibliography at
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/shiel.sht

All best

John D. Squires
JDS Books/The Vainglory Press
PO Box 292333
Kettering, OH 45429

JDS Books catalog: http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/jdsbooks.sht

Horane Smith

Horane Smith is a Jamaican-Canadian author of three historical novels: Lover's Leap : Based on the Jamaican Legend and Underground to Freedom . His third Port Royal was published last year and the fourth Reggea Silver and fifth The Lynching Stream are due this year.

Leon Chaku Symister

"From the Depths of My Naked Soul: Chaku Writes" published by Caribbean Diaspora Press, Inc. Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York 1999.
"Under the Calabash Tree" published by Caribbean Diaspora Press

Lennox Honychurch

The Dominica Story

V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He was followed no other profession. In 1960, he began to travel out of England.

In 1993, V. S. Naipaul was winner of the first David Cohen British Literature Award in recognition of a 'lifetime's achievement by a living British Writer'.

His published works include:

The Mystic Masseur, 1957,
(John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize)

The Suffrage of Elvira, 1958,
Penguin Books (1969), ISBN 0-14-002938-9

Miguel Street, 1959,
(Somerset Maugham Award)

A house for Mister Biswas, 1961

The Middle Passage, 1962,
his impressions of colonial society in the West Indies and South America

Mr Stone and the Knights Companion, 1963,
(Hawthornden Prize)

An Area of Darkness, 1964,
a reflective and semi-autobiographical account of a year in India

The Mimic Men, 1967,
(W. H. Smith Award,1968)

A Flag on the Island, 1967,
a collection of short stories

The Loss of El Dorado, 1969,
a narrative history

In a Free State, 1971,
(Booker Prize)

The Overcrowded Barracoon, 1972,
a selection of his longer essays

Guerrillas, 1975

India: A wounded Civilization, 1977,
a more analytical study (prompted by the 1975 Emergency) of Indian attitudes.

A Bend in the River, 1979

The Return of Eva Perón, 1980,
a study of Argentina during the guerilla crisis

The Killings in Trinidad, 1980,
a studies of Mobutu's Congo, and the Michael X Black Power murders

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, 1981,
a large-scale work, is the result of seven month's travel in 1979 and 1980 in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia

Finding the Centre, 1984,
contains two personal marrative pieces about 'the process of writing. Both seek in different ways to admit the reader to that process.'

The Enigma of Arrival, 1987

A Turn in the South, 1989,
describes his journey through the Deep South of America

India: A Million Mutinies Now, 1990,
is an engrossing account of the human upheavals of modern India

A Way in the World, 1994

Carlton Robinson

Cocaine Use The Accident Of My Life,Vantage Press;
Bahama Rhythms, Book Guild-London; Bahamian Poetry, local; and other short stories including The Threat, which is 90's youth gang related.
Carlton Moore Robinson:
Bahamian Carlton Robinson enjoys the paranormal and ancient civilizations. He discovered writing while studying Premed at Prairie View University, Texas. He and his wife of fourteen years, Portia have four children. 1984 found him addicted to cocaine. Sixteen years later, he has blended his creativity and perseverance to ink - "HIGH".
"My dad is from Jamaica. My Grandfather's name was Moore. He lived in Red Hills."
"My latest release is "HIGH". "HIGH" can be found at www.1stbooks.com by Carlton Moore Robinson. Available formats for this book: Electronic Book Size is 1663K $ 4.95, Paperback (6x9) n/a Coming Soon!"

About The Book "High":
Barbey, at ninety-two years, is the Bahamas’ Obeah Witch Doctor. He is dying. He must make contact with his heir Corranna, a lesbian, with the use of her twenty-three year old navel cord. In addition, Chiezne, a spiritual seed imprisoned to Earth for 500 years during the demise of the Lucayan Indians needs her so that he could return to the heavens.
Corranna has no interests in Obeah. She is a Junkanoo-festival drummer-dancer and photographer. Sasha, a neophyte pesters her, but Corranna’s puppy love, Morganna, returns from Germany. Morganna, a fashion model, rekindles their lost love, and then falls prey to Knuckles, a drug baron and high school friend. Knuckles, with lesbian, Tomboy, an assassin and drug baroness, work for Carlos Lehder, a Colombian cocaine kingpin to spirit contraband to the USA. He utilizes Bahamas Government High Officials.
A sizzling encounter with Val, an American, introduces Corranna to crack. Circumstances from Morganna’s and Knuckles’ past lead Corranna on a perilous sea escape with Tomboy onboard an ocean racer while being chased by DEA, Coast Guard, along with Bahamas Defense Force Marine Patrol.
Barely surviving the ordeal, Corranna, now addicted, confronts Obeah powers then losing her inherited millions, and life.

Jagdish R. Singh

"Earthly Tribulations" is a collection of essays based on social, economic and political issues. These concise analyses are based on a number of widely debated topics, aimed at refreshing our minds on past experiences and contemporary issues. They form a pragmatic view of our earthly problems relating to corrupt governments, laws, spiritual beliefs, racism, war, women’s rights, abortion, health care, poverty, sickness and death. Readers will get an opportunity to examine most of their earthly problems amid conflicting views, beliefs and desires, and to reflect on many of life’s sorrowful experiences. Author: Jagdish R. Singh was born June 29, 1953 in the town of Blenheim on the island of Leguan, Guyana. In 1977 he immigrated to Canada where he later studied spiritual beliefs and ancient myths. Since then he has been actively writing fiction and non-fiction themes that are thoughtful and informative. He is the author of the visionary fiction novel titled "The True Self." Earthly Tribulations By: J.R. Singh ISBN: 1-4137-0487-5 Publisher: Publishamerica Author's email: ngeeta@echo-on.net Sincerely, J.R. Singh

Ebenezer Duncan

A Brief History of St. Vincent and Studies in Citizenship, Fifth Edition, Kingstown, St. Vincent: n.p., 1970

Edgar Adams

Linking the Golden Anchor with the Silver Chain, 1996, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 219 page paperback with numerous black and white photographs and charts. This is a detailed analysis of how St. Vincent developed.

George Thomas

Ruler in Hiroona, 1989, MacMillan Publishers Ltd., Trinidad, ISBN 0-333-51071

H. Nigel Thomas is Professor of Engish, University Laval, Quebec - originally from St. Vincent
Publications:
From Foklore to Fiction, Green wood Press. (Literary Criticism)
Spirits in the Dark, Heinemann, Anansi Press, 1994 (novel)
How Loud can the Village Cock Crow? AFO Enterprises, ( 1995, Short Stories)
Moving Through Darkness, AFO Enterprises (1999, Poetry)

Horace I. Goddard is Director of Community Services, English Montreal School Board, Montreal, Quebec - originally from Barbados
Publications:
Poems for Leonta, AFO Enterprises, 1982
The Long Drums,(Poetry, AFO Enterprises, 1986
The Awakening and Song of the Antilles, (Poetry, AFO Enterprises, 1988
A Common Tongue, Interviews with Johm Agard, Cecil Abrahams, John Hearne, Wole Soyinka, AFO Enterprises, 1986
Paradise Revisited, Winston Derek Publishers, 1997 (Novel)

Jean Rhys

The Wide Sargasso Sea

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Grace Nichols, 1950-

The fat black woman's poems / Grace Nichols.
Published London : Virago, 1984. 64 p. ;20 cm.
ISBN/ISSN 0860686353 (pbk) :

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Her cycle of poems, "i is a long memoried woman", was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1983.

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A Caribbean dozen
: a collection of poems / edited by John Agard
and Grace Nichols ; illustrated by Cathie Felstead.
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1994. -- 93 p. :ill.
ISBN/ISSN 1564023397
NOTES:
Thirteen Caribbean poets recount childhood experiences in poetry and prose. The poets describe their own childhood memories and the roots from which their poetry blooms in brief essays preceding their poems. The anthology includes poems from: (bibliographies from "A Caribbean dozen")

1. Valerie Bloom
   was born in Jamaica, where she worked as a librarian before training as a teacher. She studied African and Caribbean studies in England, and later worked as a multicultural arts officer. She has published books of poetry for children and adults, and has had poems published in several anthologies.
   see also "Duppy Jamboree", 1992, Cambridge University Press
   
2. Faustin Charles
   was born in Trinidad and moved to Britain in 1962. He has had three collections of poetry published there. He has also written towo novels and a book of West Indian folktales as well as books for children. He has been a visiting lecturer and has edited a collection of folktales from around the Caribbean.
   
3. Grace Nichols
   was born in Guyana but has lived in Britain since 1977. Her publications include two collections of short stories and a collection of poems. Her first adult book of poems won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize in England. She has performed her poetry widely throughout England and abroad and has worked in radio and television.
   
4. Telcine Turner
   was born on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. Her publications include a collection of poems for children and a full-length play, and she has edited a children's story collection as well as stories and poems for school use in the Caribbean. She is married to the Bahamian artist James O. Rolle, and currently teaches at the College of the Bahamas.
   see also "Climbing Clouds", 1988 Macmillan Caribbean
   and "Song of the Surreys", 1977, Macmillan Education Ltd.
   
5. David Campbell
   is a songwriter, poet, and singer. He was born and raised in Guyana, South America, but is now a Canadian citizen living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has performed in concert and on radio and television in North America and Europe. David Campbell has written over one thousand songs, many of which have been recorded in albums. His poems have appeared in his books of song lyrics. He has worked widely among the indigenous people of the Americas.
   
6. Opal Palmer Adisa
   is a Jamaican-born writer who has lived in California since 1979. Her published works include "Bake-Face and other Guava Stories". Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies around the world. Opal Palmer Adisa has written plays that hae been produced in the Bay Area, and has taught at San Francisco State University. She is also a storyteller of Caribbean and African tales.
   
7. Marc Matthews
   is a Guyanese storyteller-poet-dramatist. His first collection won the Guyana First Publication award in 1987. He was an original member of the All-Ah-We team that toured eleven Caribbean countries and gave 160 performances. He has appeared in plays and feature films. He is now living in Guyana again after a number of years in the United Kingdom.
   
8. John Agard
   was born in Guyana but has lived in Britain since 1977. He has worked as a touring speaker, visiting nearly two thousand schools across the United Kingdom to talk about his Caribbean experience. His collections for adults include "Mangoes and Bullets", "Lovelines for a Goat-born Lady", and "Man to Pan", which won the 1982 Casa de Las Americas Cuban Poetry Award. Among his many children's books are "The Calypso Alphabet", illustrated by Jennifer Bent; "Lend me your Wings"; and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me at All".
   see also "Laughter is an Egg", 1990, Viking Press
   
9. Dionne Brand
   was born in Trinidad but now lives in Toronto, Canada. She has published books of poetry for both adults and children, coauthored a work of nonfiction, and written a book of short stories called "San Souci and Other Stories".
   
10. Pamela Mordecai
    was born in Jamaica. Her poems for adults and children have appeared in the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She has edited or coedited many anthologies including her "True Name". A trained language arts teacher, she has worked extensively in media and authored or coauthored many textbooks for the Caribbean. She lives in Kingston where she and her husband Martin run Sandberry Press, a small publishing house.
    see also "Storypoems--A First Colection", 1987, Ginn & Company Ltd.
    
11. John Lyons
    is a Trinidadian-born painter an poet who has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally. He migrated to England in 1959 and studied painting there. He won an Afro-Caribbean/Asian poetry prize twice and was commended in the British Poetry Society's national poetry competition. He has published on his own and as part of a four-poet collection.
    
12. James Berry
    was born in a Jamaican coastal village and was among the early Caribbean settlers to Britain. He became involved with the cultural life of black people early on, while steadily developing his writing. He has broadcast on radio and television and conducts writers' workshops in schools. His award-winning children's books include "A Thief in the Village", "When I Dance", and "Spiderman Anancy". His adult poetry collections include "Chain of Days". James Berry won first prize in the British Poetry Society's national competition of 1981.
    see also "When I Dance", 1991, 1988 Harcourt Brace & Company
    
13. Frank Collymore
    was born in Barbados inJanuary 1893. He was a teacher and editor of the literary magazine BIM, to which he contributed numerous poems, short stories, plays, literary reviews, and articles. He published several collections of poetry before his death in 1980. He is remembered by Barbadians as one of the island's greatest champions of literature and the arts.

Michael Thelwell
The Harder They Come Paperback | 399 Pages | ISBN 0802131387
Published in January 1988 by Wilshire Publications
"Like the acclaimed film of the same title, this lyrical, lilting, densely textured novel is based on the exploits of the legendary Jamaican folk hero and reggae star Rhygin."source: Chapters Canada

Austin Clarke
was born in Barbados in 1934 and came to Canada to attend university in 1955. He has had a varied and distinguished career as a broadcaster, civil rights leader, and professor. He has published seven novels - including the "Toronto Trilogy", five short-story collections, including "when he was Free and Young and Used to Wear Silks", "When Women Rule", and, more recently, "There Are No Elders" - and two memoirs, "Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack" and "A Passage Back Home". "The Origin of Waves" is his eighth novel. "Austin Clarke: A Biography" by Stella Algoo-Baksh was published in 1994 and "The Austin Clarke Reader", selected writings, in 1996. Austin Clarke lives in Toronto.

The Origin of Waves, 1997, McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 0-7710-2127-5

Other Books by Austin Clarke:

The Surviviors of the Crossing
Amongst Thistles and Thorns
The Meeting Point
Storm of Fortune
The Bigger Light
When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
When Women Rule
The Prime Minister
Nine Men Who Laughed
Proud Empires
In This City
There Are No Elders
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
A Passage Back Home
The Austin Clarke Reader
Pig Tails'n Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food, Random House Canada

further university references for works by Austin Clarke

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The Economic Future of the Caribbean

Historic Book by Eric Williams and E. Franklin Frazier Republished

The Majority Press announces the publication of The Economic Future of the Caribbean, edited by Eric Williams, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago and E. Franklin Frazier, African America's distinguished sociologist. This book, now almost forgotten, was first published in 1944 and is now republished for the first time in sixty years. It carries a foreword by Erica Williams Connell, daughter of Eric Williams and founder of the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.

In 1943 Dr. Eric Williams, a thirty-one year old Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science at Howard University, organized a conference on “The Economic Future of the Caribbean.” Williams, a rising star in intellectual and activist circles, brought together an eclectic and influential group of experts to debate the conference theme. Speakers included advocates of independence for Puerto Rico, leaders of the pro-democracy movement among Caribbean Americans, scholars, diplomats and the top brass of the British and United States sections of the newly-formed Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. Participants discussed the dominance of sugar throughout the region, the need for agricultural diversification, the fisheries industry and the media. They also examined race relations, the future of colonialism and the prospects for Caribbean federation. The proceedings were published under the editorship of Williams and E. Franklin Frazier, Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences at Howard.

In a new introduction to the current reprint of the conference proceedings, Tony Martin for the first time reveals Williams' use of this conference as a major component of his strategy to gain employment in the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. Williams already saw his scholarship as merely a prelude to a political career and the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission presented an unprecedented opportunity for him to make his much desired transition from academia to policy-making. Revealed here for the first time also is Williams' employment with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), immediate forerunner of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Eric Williams won a Trinidad and Tobago island scholarship, graduated at the top of his undergraduate class at Oxford University and obtained a D. Phil. from Oxford in 1938. He was successively chief minister, premier and prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981. In academic circles he is best known as author of Capitalism and Slavery, one of the outstanding historical works of the twentieth century.

E. Franklin Frazier, the distinguished sociologist, was chairman of Howard University's Division of Social Sciences, which sponsored Williams' 1943 conference. His several books included Black Bourgeoisie and The Negro Family in the United States.

Tony Martin is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

The Economic Future of the Caribbean Eric Williams and E. Franklin Frazier (Eds) ISBN 0-912469-37-4. 2004. X+144pp. US$19.95(paper).

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FULLY ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK ON LIFE OF MARCUS GARVEY FINALLY HERE

The Majority Press Inc. announces the publication of A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey by Paloma Mohamed, with illustrations by Barrington Braithwaite. This is a children’s book which traces the life and work of Jamaican born Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey was born in 1887, less than two generations after slavery was abolished. He spent his short life working towards African self-awareness, self-reliance, political power and economic liberation. He died in London in 1940 at the age of fifty-two. His love for his people found expression in a wide range of activities. These included his Negro Factories Corporation which employed hundreds, The Black Star Line Shipping Corporation, The Negro World, the world’s most widely circulated African newspaper, and more. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and others all praised Garvey’s pioneering achievements. At its height in the 1920’s Garvey‘s UNIA boasted millions of members in over forty countries. It is the greatest Pan-African mass movement in history.

Garvey’s life and work have spawned several books including such Majority Press publications as The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, edited by Amy Jacques Garvey, Marcus Garvey: Hero and Race First, both by Tony Martin. However, most of these books cater to adult and college audiences. A Man Called Garvey tries to fill the vacuum that exists for children’s literature on Garvey and on important people of color in general. It successfully strikes the balance between historical integrity, entertainment and education.

But more than just a story on the life of a great Black leader, A Man Called Garvey is an inspiring tale of self acceptance, love, dedication and discipline. It may even offer insight into the condition of Black folk today.

The story of Garvey and his UNIA is masterfully and sensitively depicted in illustrations which appear on each page of the book. This caters to this generation’s reliance on the visual and makes the book’s themes and issues accessible even to those who may dislike reading.

A Man Called Garvey is the first book in The Majority Press’s Wisdom for Children Series.

A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey By Paloma Mohamed. Illustrated by Barrington Braithwaite. ISBN: 0-912469-40-4 2004; 36 pages. 36 B&W illustrations. Paperback. US$12.95. Ages 6 and up.

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