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A Long Way from Home

on BBC Radio 3

Ferdinand Dennis chronicles the odyssey of Claude McKay. the Jamaican-born poet, novelist and pioneer of black literature, whose best-selling novel Home to Harlem won him few friends among the integrationist black leaders of the Harlem
Renaissance. In a decade of travels through Europe, he became a celebrity at the Fourth Congress in Leningrad in 1922 and worked with Sylvia Pankhurst in London. Reader Hugh Quarshie.

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Ferdinand Dennis
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Claude McKay.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Reader:
Hugh Quarshie.

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