Visions of Kalinago and Garifuna in Peggy Carr’s ‘Shape of a Warrior’: A Review
Shape of a Warrior performs a twofold function, it preserves the past with thoughtful reverence but shows keen awareness that the lives, practices, language, and beliefs of the Kalinago as well as the Garifuna cannot be relegated to relics of history. They literally live among, around, and within us.
Memory Games
Yuh wake up screaming, parched lips bitter from the tail-end of another nightmare…
Becoming Rage
Tantie Mary say that since me feel me a big woman now, to gwan and don’t comeback. The words still ring in my head three weeks later. My last image of Hibiscus Road featured the woman who raised me.
Music for 1
The soca song “Lucille” by Jestura was the anthem for Shilva especially around Carnival season.