Jouvay

What I love about Jouvay is how it exists as a counter to the idea of beauty. You submit your body to this mass of humanity and the way you look can change from minute to minute. For one morning we can be free of the self consciousness of hours clocked in the gym,...

Everything blooms again

Have you seen the yellow pouis on the north side of the Savannah today? Or anywhere really. They are a much needed light shining through the rage and ugliness of the news of the last few days.Everything blooms again, Trinidad. Please believe and know...

Padmore

We don’t sing his name in songs and the house he was born in was demolished in a ‘clean up campaign’ but George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse on June 28, 1903 was and remains one of the most influential names and voices of Pan Africanism. It bears...

World Steelpan Day

Yes we are finally claiming the steelpan, yet  I find there is an oversimplification in just saying the  African drum was banned. The drum was central to our life’s rituals and also part of our spiritual communication technology. That  banning was a further attempt at...