Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: Rex Nettleford & Today’s Thinkers · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“It was undoubtedly a pleasure to hear from one of the few great Caribbean minds–with the recent passing of Lloyd Best, their numbers are even fewer now, and needed no less than ever.  Yet it occurred to me…that these minds are almost to a person of an older generation.”  Attending a lecture by Jamaican scholar Professor Rex Nettleford leads Jonathan Ali to wonder, “Where are the great scholars and thinkers of today?