Nijah Cunningham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the editorial assistant for Small Axe. He is currently working on a dissertation that focuses on literature, performance, and the question of a black aesthetic that emerges from the 1960s moment across three African and African diasporic nodes—Senegal, Jamaica, and the United States.
Laura Facey is a Jamaican sculptor whose work spans forty years. She was trained at the Jamaica School of Art. Her controversial Redemption Song is a monument to slave emancipation, commissioned by the government of Jamaica in 2002. Also significant among her works is Their Spirits Gone before Them (2006), an installation of a sixteen-foot cottonwood canoe housing hundreds of the miniature resin figures of the Redemption Song monument.
Kaiama L. Glover is associate professor in the Department of French and the...
