Celebrated Guyanese writer Peter Kempadoo passes away

anybody left

His Daughter is his legacy !
Rest in Peace ~

nice. those books look interesting....
I made a note o check dem out

www.amazon.com/Buxton-Spice-Bluestreak-O...mpadoo/dp/0807083712

Buxton Spice is the story in the town of Tamarind Grove :
its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana
-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder,
and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.~~

nice ketchim..intelligent stuff. but what I am really looking for is for some one to take apart the west indies from the peoples responsibility for it angle.

it is time to bell the west indian people. we have gotten away with our irresponsibility for far too long

I did not know she is here in Canada...
Let me try to get a hold of her after Dad's funeral
hopefully she can write us a piece, here

make she try an analysis of the west indian people..from BG in the south up to Antigua and the Yard

she did all these years ago ~
Her second book, Tide Running, set in Plymouth, Tobago
is the story of young brothers Cliff and Ossie.

i looking fuh ah comprehensive angle..social/political/economic..all in one..that most writers do at some point in their careers.

you see the west indies,,formerly colonial, slave/indenture...independence 60 years ago from 1961 to BG later on..long removed now..in a world in real economic crisis...

suffered the consequences of such a youth/formative centuries, become decrepit and backward, no longer in a flush of revolutionary youth 60 years on, but in the middle of the crisis and will suffer awfully if and when the crisis becomes full blown.....

how will they fare..how can they fare given who they are at this point after that history listed above?

I would love one of them real skilled and sensitive souls to dig into that bringing a humane flair to it..not me! I am a partisan bease' in the mix who want to kill this and that group, seek this or dat revenge, preach penance and seek vengeance

I wuss dan Vidiahar. and I cant think of a soul then and from then, older whom I would want to talk to me about today. it have to be someone from today who still have life to go on living, and can infuse that reality, that fact into their analysis

this lil fine Guyana derived gyul here, appears to have all the qualities. fit my job description