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Professor Tony Martin Dies at 70

Published on January 17, 2013 in Africa, Books, Health and Passed on. 74 Comments Tags: Africa, African, Professor Tony Martin.

UPDATE – JANUARY 28, 2013

Prof Tony Martin's Send-Off
Prof Tony Martin’s Send-Off — January 25, 2013
A Celebration and Thanksgiving Service for the life of Professor Anthony Martin
21st February, 1942 – 17th January, 2013.
Service on Friday 25th January, 2013 at 9.00 a.m.
St. Theresa’s R.C. Church, Woodbrook thence to the St. James Crematorium for 11.00 a.m.
More photos here

UPDATE – JANUARY 23, 2013

The funeral of Professor Tony Martin will be held on Friday 25th January, 2013, at 9:00am at St. Theresa’s R.C. Church, 50 De Verteuil Street, Woodbrook.

Trinicenter.com Reporters
January 17, 2013 – www.trinicenter.com

Dr. Tony Martin, former Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College, has passed over tonight, January 17th 2013 in Trinidad & Tobago at West Shore Medical Hospital. Trinidadian-born Dr. Martin taught at the University of Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College (Trinidad), and St. Mary’s College (Trinidad). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University, and The Colorado College and also spent a year as an honorary research fellow at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.
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Columbus & the Falsification of History: Updated

Published on October 15, 2012 in Africa, Books, Caribbean, Culture, General T&T, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 7 Comments Tags: Africa, African, Christopher Columbus, Kwame Nantambu.

By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
October 15, 2012

At the outset, it must be stated quite clearly that we Afrikan people, are the original, majority people with original ideas. Europeans are only an inherited, transmitting, global minority people. Europeans did not invent, create or discover culture or civilization; they just inherited them and in some cases, stole them. Afrikans never lived in caves and in the icebox during the Ice Age for 20,000 years.
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Africa’s hurt revisited

Published on August 3, 2012 in Africa, Books, Education, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 10 Comments Tags: Africa, African, Emancipation.

By George Alleyne
August 01, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

What has been suppressed by British and European reactionaries with a vested interest in justifying slavery was that long before the slave trade Africans were well advanced in mining and metal-working, agriculture, food production, cotton weaving and garment manufacture.
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The Souls of Black Folk

Published on May 4, 2011 in Africa, Books, Education, General T&T and Race and Identity. 12 Comments Tags: Africa, African, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, USA.

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
May 04, 2011

Part 2 – Part 1

Joseph Winthrop Holley, the founder of Albany State University and the son of a former slave, was born in Albany, Georgia, which explains why he wanted to build a school in his native town. He attended Revere Lay College in Revere, Massachusetts which changed its name to the Boston Evangelical Institute before it merged with another school to form Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary that my former wife attended. During the latter part of the 1980s I visited that seminary often.
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Indian Time Ah Come

Published on November 23, 2010 in Books, Culture, General T&T, Indian, Politics, Race and Identity and Religion. 24 Comments Tags: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, Sat Maharaj, Satnarayan Maharaj, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, T&T Govt.

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
November 23, 2010

A foolish person opined that I was catering (they used the word “kissing up”) to Sat and Kamla because I dedicate Indian Time Ah Come, my most recent book, to Sat, Kamla and the East Indian struggle for justice. He even seemed perturbed that I asked Sat to offer the feature address at the launching of the book and more aggrieved that Sat agreed to do so.
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Naipaul in the House

Published on August 25, 2010 in Books, General T&T and Race and Identity. 10 Comments Tags: Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Vidia Naipaul.

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
August 25, 2010

In April or May of 1888, my former wife and I were having dinner with two colleagues when the phone rang. My nephew called from the upper part of the house: “Uncle Selwyn, Mr. Naipaul is on the phone.” A tense silence came over the room. I took up the phone.
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Besson’s Cruel Accusations

Published on July 23, 2010 in Books, Culture, General T&T and Race and Identity. 5 Comments Tags: African, Dr Eric Williams, Gerard Besson, Selwyn R. Cudjoe.

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
July 23, 2010

Part I

Gerard Besson’s The Cult of the Will seeks to challenge the historical orthodoxy that undergirds Dr. Eric Williams’s analysis of the causes of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade and the cruelty he perpetuated against the entire society although whites seems to come out worse in the bargain. According to Besson, Williams sought “to facilitate the stigmatization of Caribbean people of European descent, or those who appear so, through the projection of negative concepts of ‘slave master’ or ‘colonial master,’ to modern-day individuals for political and ideological purposes.”
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Open Veins of Latin America

Published on April 23, 2009 in 5th Summit and Books. 1 Comment Tags: Barack Obama, Cuba, Fifth Summit of the Americas, Hugo Chávez, Latin America, USA.

Eduardo Galeano’s important earlier book, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1973) is crucial not only for an understanding of the economics of colonialism in America, but by extension makes explicit the mechanism of colonialism/imperialism worldwide.
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‘Tipping Point’ truly an amazing book

Published on December 28, 2008 in Books and General T&T. 4 Comments

By Derren Joseph
December 28, 2008

I was on Facebook, and someone’s “status” message said something about enjoying a book called The Tipping Point.

I smiled when I read that message. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference was an amazing book for me. My friend Stuart des Vignes recommended it to me some years back. I was not disappointed—so now, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand social phenomena.

Tipping Point is, apparently, a sociological term to describe “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.”
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