Peepaltreepress.com: David Chanderbali’s book is a valuable addition to the small but growing literature concerning 19th century Indian indentured migration to work as labourers in plantation economies in the tropical world. It complements Hugh Tinker’s (and others) studies of Indian indenture in the Caribbean, Surendra Bhana’s (and others) of South Africa and those dealing […]
In these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are highly readable - by turns probing, combative and reflective and always absorbing. Daryl […]
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Pearl Connor-Mogotsi
13 May 1924 – 11 February 2005
Opening Remarks
Professor Gus John - Moderator
On 11 February 2005, an indomitable spirit took flight. The spirit of a woman who from a very early age was consumed by an impatience for change and a consciousness of the place of art in shaping and humanizing […]
We have just received a card from Norman Markham informing that there will be a memorial service for Archie at Upper Tooting Methodist Church, 290 Balham High Street, London SW17.
It will take place on Friday 9th of May at 12.00 noon.
Nearest tube: Tooting Bec.
Best wishes
Jeremy Poynting
The following is from the Peepal Tree Press Condolence […]
I learned a lot from Mac over the years. He had an absolute love for Guyanese “culchuh” as he put it–and an infinite interest in every variant of every tradition (queh queh, obeah, cumfa), song, story, game, way of cooking, eating, celebrating, and so on that Guyanese and West Indian peoples of […]
We have just received the sudden and shocking news of the death of E.A. (Archie) Markham in Paris on 23rd March, Easter day.
Archie had apparently been taken to or gone to a Paris hospital where he died, it seems, of a heart attack. It was not until Monday 6th of April that news […]
St. Patrick’s Day Party
Winston Jarrett and the Solid Foundation Band
Kingfish, The Paul Richardson Trio with Josephine Howell & Randy Oxford Band
GUYANA EMBASSY - CARACAS, VENEZUELA
His Excellency Dr. Odeen Ishmael, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary
