Trinidad & Tobago: Midnight Robber · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“Ah does bade in acid and scrub meh teeth in the ashes of Caroni and grease meh foot beyond petroleum jelly…and when I laugh a roar more terrible than Ivan tumbling over Grenada to make politicians scamper like pot hounds in the gutter.”  Thebookmann posts a speech from The Midnight Robber, one of Trinidad and Tobago's traditional Carnival characters.