In ‘The Moving Word’, Dr. Leslie James explores the interdigitated sinews bringing together journalism, social revolution, cultural development and thought leadership through the promotion of Black political ideals in the lead-up to Independence movements across West Africa and the Caribbean.

Keenan Falconer reviews the CARICON Prize for Fiction awarded novel, A House for Miss Pauline written by Diana McCaulay. The novel tells the story of a 99-year-old Rastafari woman reckoning with her past

Dr. Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, critically responding to the island’s global reputation for extreme homophobia and anti-queer violence.

This passage looks at how former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, went against US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and supported Cuba’s decision to send troops to Angola.

In the first full-length study of Dr. Walter Rodney’s life, Leo Zeilig critically considers Rodney’s contribution to Marxist theory and history, and the contemporary significance of his work today’s society.

A summary of Dr. Cezley Sampson’s new book, which is the first book of its kind to give a comprehensive & up-to-date look on the development of Jamaica’s modern economy from independence to the present

Charting its humble and rebellious roots in Jamaica’s backcountry in the late nineteenth century to the present day, Dr. Charles Price explains how Jamaicans’ obsession with the Rastafari wavered from campaigns of violence to appeasement and cooptation.