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Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad & Tobago: Lighting the Way

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad & Tobago, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, Ideas, Language, Literature, Migration & Immigration, Politics

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp [1] is still processing the news of Aimé Césaire's death: “For if the goal of any life is freedom, then Aimé Césaire was a light”…while Caribbean Free Radio [2] remembers a podcast she did with “Césaire intoning, in his impeccably enunciated French, against a musical background, the first few verses of his epic ‘Notebook of a Return to My Native Land’, beginning with the famously ambiguous opening line ‘au bout du petit matin’ (‘at the end of dawn’)…”