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What Mango Thief and Wine Thief Have in Common: Our Culture, Carnival and Consent

Posted on January 17, 2018April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

First, I would like to make it clear that I am not equating the theft of mangoes with the violation of women’s bodies. For reasoning sake, I am offering an example relevant to “our culture” (a term which has been circulating more frequently these days). “Our culture” is fluid, not fixed. Sadly, when this word […]

No Caribs, No Awaraks: Farewell Dr. John Campbell

Posted on January 13, 2018April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

The repetition of history is pointless if it is taught as something ‘dead’, overly generalised and irrelevant to understanding our current social reality and the way we envision the future of our Caribbean nations. But Dr. John Campbell ensured that history was not a sleeping class or a pointless subject area. The first time I […]