"Trinidadian sitarist, composer, and music authority, Mangal Patasar once remarked about t♯¿n-singing, 'You take a capsule from India, leave it here for a hundred years, and this is what you get.' Patasar was referring to what may be the most sophisticated and distinctive art fo…
Historian Matthew Parker discusses the history behind one of the greatest power struggles of the 17th to 19th centuries as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar--a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold"--In the tiny Caribbean islan…
"Between 1964 and 1974 Tanzania came to be regarded as a model nation and a leading frontline state in the struggle for African liberation on the continent and beyond. During this time, a number of African American and Caribbean nationalists, leftists, and pan-Africanists travel…
In the later eighteenth century, the West Indian sugar islands were a source of conspicuous wealth for some individuals and an important addition to the resources of Great Britain. This work examines Edmund Burke's long involvement with the West Indies, examining his conflicted …
