By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 13, 2020 “They say the sun will shine for all/But in some people’s world, it doesn’t shine at all./ So much been said, so little been done./ They still killing the people/ And they having their fun” —Bob Marley, “Crisis” PART 3 I have been writing about the plight … Continue reading Black Betrayal (In the Age of the Coronavirus)
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe November 26, 2019 One radio host called my comparison of Sat Maharaj with Martin Luther King “sacrilegious” while a caller to another radio station wondered what had happened to Professor Cudjoe since 2011. “I had admired Professor Cudjoe but now I don’t know what has gone wrong with him. Imagine … Continue reading Sat Maharaj and Martin Luther King
Of Independence, sedition and legislative violence: how elitist laws have damaged the nation By Dr Tye Salandy September 02, 2019 UPDATED: September 03, 2019 Sedition, careful, careful how you talking … hey hey! Sedition, careful, careful whey you walking Incompetent idiots have genuine patriots Always under escort in the sedition court. —The Mighty Sparrow (Sedition) … Continue reading Independence, sedition and legislative violence
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 06, 2019 Last Sunday, four of the five Sunday columnists of this newspaper wrote about the crime problem that confronts the nation. The Sunday Guardian also published a long investigative piece on the subject. On Monday, Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon talked about the pervasiveness of crime and concluded that … Continue reading The Road Make to Walk…
By Dr Kwame Nantambu Published: August 06, 2019 This article was written before August 01, 2019 As Emancipation Day approaches, it is indeed apropos to delineate the economic and political aspects of the abolition of slavery, albeit the European enslavement of African people or MAAFA— the “great disaster.”
By Raffique Shah August 02, 2019 A tragedy of our times is the absolute ignorance of the vast majority of our population of the nation’s history. And for once I cannot blame this void on information technology, on the electronic devices that most young people and many mature ones are glued to, in most instances … Continue reading CLR James: man without honour in his own country
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 15, 2018 “Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods, I am no idle votarist!…Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.” —William Shakespeare,”Timon of Athens” Two weeks ago, I made a case for “reparative justice.” Drawing on “Slavery, Abolition … Continue reading “The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.”
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 20, 2018 PART 1 “If being afflicted with asthma [as Naipaul was as a child] shaped personality and character, then, perhaps it made him [Naipaul] a wounded animal. —Savi Naipaul Akal” On May 13, 1979, Irving Howe reviewed V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River in the New … Continue reading A Wounded Animal
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 4, 2018 PART 5 I have rarely received so many responses to my articles as those I received about my previous column. Once I had the temerity to describe the business activities of the Syrian-Lebanese community I opened up a whole batchak nest unleashing the deadly fury that such … Continue reading Preparing the Way for Kamla – Pt 5
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 04, 2018 PART 1 It was Indian Arrival Day. I just had to go down to Paravati Girls Hindu College, Debe, to hear what Sat Maharaj, leader of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) had to say about the importance of Indian Arrival Day to his community and his … Continue reading Preparing the Way for Kamla