The Bellevue Hospital in Kingston will honour ... up in a poor community in Jamaica, we know the struggle and we know what it is like. “A lot of people in the ghetto have talent.
At first glance, it might seem odd for a writer as ambitious and celebrated as Marlon James (who won the Man Booker Prize in 2015 for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings) to attempt something ...
Jamaica’s colonial past looms large in Get Millie Black, infusing social interactions with copious intersecting binaries: ...
Third World is one of the longest-lived reggae bands of all time. Their style has been described as “reggae-fusion”, ...
So monikers like “Step Inna It”, “Hopscotch” and “Tippy” — all coined because of his gait — became dreaded nicknames for the ...
Much of James’s writing centres around themes of transformation – and, as Millie joins the police in Jamaica and finds herself on the trail of a lost girl in Kingston (Janet Fenton ...
Set in Kingston, Jamaica, the series follows Detective Millie ... scion Freddy Somerville – “a rich boy who love f**king ghetto girls,” according to Curtis – he and Millie head to the ...
Whether it’s parties, patties or patois, this Caribbean capital is a non-stop celebration, says the Booker Prize-winning author ...