The Jamaican-born poet and novelist Claude McKay was one of the pioneers of black literature. His best-selling novel Home to
Harlem was set in the clubs and bars and 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 Parkhurst in London. Ferdinand Dennis chronicles the odyssey of Claude McKay. Reader Hugh Quarshie.
Producer Fiona McLean