Trinidad & Tobago: Unchained?  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“Here every creed and race find an equal place but there is no solidarity. Only the Africans celebrate the fact that they are free. Only the Indians celebrate the fact that they arrived. What is the point of being cosmopolitan if we can’t even be bothered to share our triumphs and our failures?”:  One hundred and seventy years post-Emancipation, Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer is “still trying to make sense of freedom.”