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Free Thinking: Ghosts of Caribbean history

Ghosts of Caribbean history

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New writing by Colin Grant and Kevin Jared Hosein; art by Michael Elliott and Mary Evans.

Shahihda Bari brings together a novelist from Trinidad, the writer of a family memoir about his Jamaican family and artists working on a Windrush portraits project.

Hungry Ghosts is the new novel set in colonial Trinidad by Kevin Jared Hosein. Colin Grant has written a memoir about his Jamaican family.  A new art project, Windrush Portraits, is a collaboration between Mary Evans and Michael Elliott with communities in both Kingston, Jamaica, and Southampton, UK.  Shahidha Bari looks at the way ghosts of history haunt these artworks. 

Producer: Robyn Read

Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is out now.
Colin Grant's memoir I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be is out now and you can find out more about his work at https://colingrant.info/ 
Colin is also Director of the Royal Literary Fund website Writers Mosaic  https://writersmosaic.org.uk/   This is an online magazine and developmental resource focused on UK writers of the global majority.
Windrush Projects will see special billboards on display across Jamaica throughout February 2023 and the artists Mary Evans and Michael Elliott will make new artworks, created in collaboration with communities that will be presented during October 2023 (Black History Month in the UK) in both Southampton, UK and Kingston, Jamaica.

You can find a collection of conversations exploring different aspects of Black History on the Free Thinking programme website. It includes recent episodes about Phillis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Amílcar Cabral and the Victorian circus performer Pablo Fanque  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp

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