...-Saxon poetry’s relationship to oral traditions in Africa and the Caribbean explicit, Maureen’s teaching drew on these cutting-edge pedagogical developments. She exposed students to the ways, in Ngũgĩ’s terms, that “familiarity with oral literature could suggest new structures and techniques...

... as a conceptual pivot for the revision of Caribbean history. 28 In this regard, Beckles imagines standing in a genealogical relationship to Walter Rodney, seeing How Europe Underdeveloped Africa as a precursor to his own intervention in How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean . 29 Now, true enough...

... in the short story collection Tropic Death and the pamphlet The British Negro , respectively. The essay demonstrates how and why South Africa proved significant to an emergent radical consciousness in the Caribbean and the vicissitudes of turning to south(ern), not only West, Africa to think through Africa...

...Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi This essay moves between the author’s autobiographical reflections and a close reading of Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Guinea’s Other Suns (1991/2015) in order to unpack the ways Warner-Lewis’s research on Africa in the Caribbean has challenged the split between them around...

.... Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at the University of the West Indies, Mona. His recent books include Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2021), Fear of Black Consciousness (2022), and Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon (2023). N jelle H...

...Richard Drayton Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) examined, of course, how European imperialism turned Africa into a subordinate zone of the world economy. But beyond that, this essay seeks to show how Rodney explored, with Marxist and Caribbean tools, the complex problem...

...Roshini Kempadoo Recent political agitations across countries, including those in Southern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North and Middle Africa, are further problematized by the perceived failure of “state multiculturalism” in Europe. European citizens of different cultures...

... across the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Artistic comrades for twenty years, they have also collaborated with each other in performance and video. Here, they offer a deep exchange about their creative practice, paying special attention to two works individually premiered on a split bill...

... shows how trespass and transgression, and the enduring concepts of plot and plantation, acquire completely different contours and raise different ethical questions depending on location. Thus Africa, as an ostensibly valorized original homeland for black Caribbean people, and the no-man's-land...

... translation of text to image, or an homage to a Caribbean metanarrative, but a meditation which functions dialectically. In Walcott’s version, the signal moment of the hero-figure Achille’s self-questioning occurs in a boat being pulled toward Africa. Julien places him instead on the St. Lucian...

... imaginaries that exist across the Afro-Latinx Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic), Equatorial Guinea (the only Spanish-speaking nation-state in Sub-Saharan Africa), and their diasporic cultural productions in the United States and Spain. The essay ultimately argues that women of color...

..., Capitalism and Slavery ), African underdevelopment (see Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ), Caribbean population (see Ramiro Guerra, Sugar and Society in the Caribbean ); they produced imperialism, wars, colonial blocs, rebellions, repressions, sugar islands, runaway slave settlements, air...

... that the assessment of Africa’s entanglement with the region is ongoing. 46 Maureen Warner-Lewis, “African Continuities in the Rastafari Belief System,” Caribbean Quarterly 39, nos. 3–4 (1993): 18–123; and “The Rada of Belmont,” in Guinea’s Other Suns , 143. See also Rupert Lewis and Maureen Warner-Lewis...

... of place. We see this approach in Richard Drayton’s suggestion that we read HEUA as “a Caribbean re-envisioning of the relationship of Africa and Europe,” and in his conclusion that “Rodney’s engagement with African political economy and African liberation [was] inseparable from his commitment...

...Fatoumata Seck This essay explores the early work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain in Congo. Despite Comhaire-Sylvain being renowned as Haiti’s first woman anthropologist, her life and extensive scholar-ship in Africa have been largely overlooked. Given her unique positionality and formal training...

... on to reflect on and trouble preconceived ideas about Maroon subjectivity, marronage , and Africa . It concludes by imagining ways Schomburg would engage our present. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Maroon marronage black dignity Afro-epistemes Afro-Caribbean Afro-Latinx Afro-Latin...

..., and of linking with its counterparts in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 cultural studies intellectual community Small Axe 's invitation to celebrate its twentieth anniversary has created a moment of pause outside the routine of production to reflect on what journal...

... in the exhibitions' press release by its director, Elvis Fuentes, as taking a polyphonic perspective to deal with a huge archipelago that is as diverse and complex as New York City, which is, to many, the largest Caribbean city … . For the first time ever, this project will examine the impact of Africa, South Asia...

..., hundreds of black healers, many of them from West and West Central Africa, were particularly successful health practitioners all around the circum-Caribbean. 16 They practiced in the open and not only in secluded spaces on plantations or in the countryside in maroon settlements. There is clear evidence...

...? What constitutes it? And how does it articulate liberation? © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Peter Abrahams Pan-Africanism South Africa and the Caribbean decolonization Bought hill. Love, Peter. —Peter Abrahams, telegraph to Daphne Abrahams, 1955 In 1956, the Pan-African revolutionary...