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January 23, 2023
Happy New Year to our Readers!
Continuing with our Cultural Ambassadors Series launched on February 23 last year, today, Sir Derek Walcott’s birth date, we celebrate this titan of Caribbean life and art. We honor him as a true regionalist and unforgettable thought shaper who used his gift to narrow the distance between the region as he elevated us by celebrating the Caribbean landscape and our being.
We begin with Lennel George’s “The Radical Innocence Of Caribbean Theatre: A Review of Ken Jaikaransingh’s ‘Plays For Today,” which salutes and gets to the essence of Caribbean theatre with an emphasis on Walcott’s “Ti Jean and His Brothers,” a classic in drama. “Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott; Trinidad?” by Llewellyn Mac Intosh reads as fresh today as when it was first published on these pages soon after Walcott transitioned in 2017. The release ends with Winthrop R. Holder’s “Reflections on Morning Paramin,” also written in 2017, which discusses one of Walcott’s last books.
We must continue to read Walcott’s works and those of our other thought shapers.
From BDN Editors