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February 21, 2023
From the launch of BIG DRUM NATION as a free-access Caribbean creative journal in 2005, we have also been reparation activists. In a book Symposium on Reparations last August 23, we called for a “country-specific focus on British plunder in the region.” In this issue, Martin P. Felix answers the call with “How Britons Underdeveloped Grenada,” which challenges the effrontery of a British aristocratic family’s determination to dictate the terms on which reparations should be accepted. Felix asks, in which jurisprudence is the criminal allowed to be judge, jury, and dispenser of the terms of punishment? Certainly, not in Grenada or anywhere!
“How Britons Undeveloped Grenada” builds on and is in the finest tradition of our reparations-themed articles published within these pages over the years, such as “Britain On Trial: Symposium On ‘How Europe Underdeveloped The Caribbean: A Reparations Response To Europe’s Legacy Of Plunder And Poverty,” our Emancipation Day (Editorial 2020), Kim Johnson’s “Do You Remember?“, James Finies’, “Bonarian People’s Struggle For Self Determination,” and Caldwell Taylor’s “The Morant Bay Rebellion” among others.
Read on and join the conversation asserting our right to be the authors and engines/agents of our destiny!
From DBN Editors