The Rampage Story

ISBN-13: 978-0956905703

Publisher: Global Carnival Centre

Price £9.99

Cynics might say “OK it’s a book on carnival so what, the pictures are pretty”. What they do not realise is that Rampage is an important record of the Caribbean’s stunning art form which is carnival.

Pax Nindi as editor and interviewer secured sufficient funding to ensure that the work of Colin Spalding and all the people of many cultural identities will live beyond Mas day on the coffee  (whoops) rum tables of the thousands and thousands of revellers whose spirits lift to the heavens when carnival time comes around.

One man’s dedication, determination and incredible artistic vision deserves not just one book but a whole archive and thanks to Nindi, that day may come.

SuAndi

Small wonder it is already out of stock in Waterstones and on Amazon

Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic

ISBN-13: 978-1846317590. Liverpool University Press (28 Feb 2012)

The word expert is often (too) liberally banded about; it becomes particularly irksome when the “expert” is not of the group under research.

Alan Rice wears this mantle comfortably and deservedly so as an English man determined to bring the truth of the horrors of the slave trade to our generation.

What Rice manages to do is join the dots between, yesterday and today to show how the impact of the genocide has seeped into contemporary culture by the tools, skills and crafts of the artistic world.

He takes the reader on a journey through music and the visual arts to remind the reader that we, the people of the African continent and Diaspora are strong survivors not merely victims-decedents of the blood of history

SuAndi