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The Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books Volume 8 Number 1 Fall 2015 THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA REVIEW OF BOOKS VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Tim Hector on Gregson Davis Gregson Davis on Tim Hector Lawrence Jardine on Tim Hector Tim Hector on Jamaica Kincaid Dorbrene O’Marde on Tim Hector Joanne Hillhouse on Dorbrene O’marde Hazra Medica on Marie-Elena John Tim Hector on Novelle Richards Edgar Lake on Henry Redhead Yorke Charles Ephraim on Tim Hector Lowell Jarvis on Tim Hector Tim Hector at Brown University And Much Much More ... THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA REVIEW OF BOOKS A Publication of the Antigua and Barbuda Studies Association Volume 8 • Number 1 • Fall 2015 Copyright © 2015 Antigua and Barbuda Studies Association Editorial Board: Ian Benn, Joanne Hillhouse, Paget Henry, Edgar Lake, Adlai Murdoch, Ermina Osoba, Elaine Olaoye, Mali Olatunji, Vincent Richards Paget Henry, Editor The Antigua and Barbuda Studies Association was founded in 2006 with the goal of raising local intellectual awareness by creating a field of Antigua and Barbuda Studies as an integral part of the larger field of Caribbean Studies. The idea for such an interdisciplinary field grew out of earlier “island conferences” that had been organized by the University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Edu- cation, in conjunction with the Political Culture Society of Antigua and Barbuda. The Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books is an integral part of this effort to raise local and regional intellectual awareness by generating conversations about the neglected literary traditions of Antigua and Barbuda through reviews of its texts. Manuscripts: the manuscripts of this publication must be in the form of short reviews of books or works of art dealing with Antigua and Barbuda. Thus reviews of works by writers and artists from Antigua and Barbuda such as Peregrine Pickle, Mary Prince, Tim Hector, Ashley Bryan, Novelle Richards, Gregson Davis, Jamaica Kincaid, Edgar Lake, Althea Prince, Keithlyn Smith, Adlai Murdoch and others will be particularly welcome. We will also welcome commentaries on reviews we have published. Reviews should be no longer than six double-spaced pages, with minimal if any footnotes. Submit reviews to Paget Henry, editor, as word documents at [email protected] for consideration. No portion of the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books may be reproduced for commercial purposes without the permission of the Antigua and Barbuda Studies Association. Cover art: Photograph, Tim Hector at Brown University Production layout and design by, Graphic Services, Brown University VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 DEDICATION The Editorial Collective ofThe Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books dedicate this special issue of our journal to the members of the ACLM, but especially to Lowell Jarvis, who departed from this life last year. As his paper in this issue makes clear, Jarvis was committed to a coopera- tive socialism. In addition to being a leading ACLM member, Jarvis was a distinguished architect, who worked at incorporating the vernacular architecture of Antigua and Barbuda into his designs. Like several of his ACLM colleagues – Corthright Marshall, George Goodwin, James Knight, and Radcliffe Robins – Jarvis studied in Cuba and returned home after receiving his degree in Architecture. As we celebrate the work of Jarvis, the ACLM, and the thought of Tim Hector in particular, let us continue the practice of taking some time out to ponder the mystery of the passing of both Jarvis and Hector. Even though what we feel in these moments of silence, we often find it so hard to articulate, nevertheless they remain of the utmost importance as these moments of silence speak eloquently to our humanity. ... Paget Henry 1 ... BUILDER, PAST THE CATAFALQUE (For Lowell Jarvis) Bier of polished chrome Perpendicular to sheen; Pall-bearers halt To disappointments - No longer relevant; Protractor is Roundabout: The circle, halved Builders hurry little; True to cornerstone: assembling laughter Hinged on Goodwill Such is Earth, Mortar VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Bracing for collapse, We buttress defeat; To the Contest, true! - Homage least to rivalry If congress to forge, a Corner-post, due mortise So, now, cortège is deed Wagon-wheel is catafalque The shattered beam Is nought else, scaffold If the expected odds Be trumped as asset Duty is Doxology: The Builder, past catafalque Let the thorny Pentimento hold: wreath, to faded rose; ... Whisper, only: “Brother,” 2 ... portals due, to hinge Edgar O. Lake 2/23/14 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Table of Contents Editor’s Note . 7 Tim Hector: In His Own Voice What is Socialism? . 12 Tim Hector Cricket and Decolonization . 17 Tim Hector The Art of Carnival and Carnival of Art . 23 Tim Hector Portraits of Tim Hector (1996-2002) Tim Hector: A Man For All Seasons . 32 Conrad Luke Tim Hector: A Brief Personal Tribute . 36 Gregson Davis ... 3 ... Tim Hector: A Misunderstood Genius of Our Time . 38 Charles Ephraim Tim: Not Just For Knowledge Sake, but for Humanity . 42 Lawrence Jardine L . Tim Hector: Caribbean Visionary and Leader par Excellence . 48 Corthright Marshall Essays on Tim Hector: From the 2013 Conference Tim Hector: Fanning the Flame to Transform the Caribbean . 55 David Abdulah Tim Hector and the Alternative of Cooperative Economics . 74 Lowell Jarvis Leonard Tim Hector: Egalitarian and Visionary . 83 George Goodwin, Jr . Politics by Other Means: Tim Hector on Arts and Culture . 87 Dorbrene O’Marde VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Tim Still Fans the Flame in Africa . 96 Edith Tomilinson-Oladele The Socialist Legacy of Tim Hector . 109 Paget Henry Wisdom is Plentiful Among Ordinary People to Govern: . 132 A View of Antigua’s Tim Hector and Guyana’s Eusi Kwayana Matthew Quest A Very Special Feature Essay Re-introducing Henry Redhead Yorke: 18th Century . 164 Barbudan Journeyman Edgar Lake Feature Poetry With Edith Tomlinson-Oladele and Alvette (Ellorton) Jeffers Edith Tomlinson-Oladele ... 4 Murder, Murder, Murder, Woi! . 191 ... Just One Word! . 194 Back Home in Africa Land . 195 I Met the Men . 196 If I Say . 197 Who Will Admit . 198 At the Touch of a Lover . 199 Alvette (Ellorton) Jeffers The Trance . 200 I Will Remain . 202 Field of Lilies . 203 How Would I Know . 204 Nude in the Basin . 205 Couldn’t Make Love Tonight . 206 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Book Reviews Dorbrene O’Marde’s, Nobody Go Run Me . 208 Joanne Hillhouse The ‘Meaning of her Skin’: Carib[bean] . 217 Revision in Marie-Elena John’s, Unburnable Hazra Medica Freedom is a Multifaceted Condition: . 237 Denise Smith-Lewis’, Emancipation Come Valerie Combie Autobiographical Reflections: . 241 Valerie Knowles Combie’s, Lots of Laughter Paget Henry Reviews by Tim Hector: A Selection Elizabeth Hart Thwaites: Our Prime Historical Woman . 247 ... 5 In Salute to Ambrose – Bert Williams . 254 ... Novelle Richards: Our Literary Foundation . 261 Arnold Prince: An Artistic Home Coming . 268 The Alarm Has Been Sounded: George Weston . 275 Our Most Astonishing Figure: J . Oliver Davis . 282 Notes on A Native Son and Negritude: Gregson Davis . 290 The Genius of and From Antigua: . 298 Ralf Prince and Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid: Prophet of the Future . 304 A Small Place – Large Vision . 310 A Remarkable Writer and Childhood: Jamaica Kincaid . 314 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 Another Antiguan Writer Emerges: Elaine Henry Olaoye . 320 Viv Richards: More than Batsman, More than Master Blaster . 323 Antiguan Makes Great Contribution to . 329 Overcoming Underdevelopment: Paget Henry Antigua Has Reached a Fork in the Road: Paget Henry . 335 Not by Spirits, but by the Knowledge of Ourselves . 340 and Our own Creation Through Struggle: Paget Henry Dr . Paget Henry and African Philosophy . 347 “To make Themselves Masters of the Country” – . 357 250 Years After: Barry Gaspar “To make Themselves Masters of the Country” – . 364 ... 250 Years After [Part 2]: Barry Gaspar 6 ... A Native Baldwin Will Come: Scholz & Stevens’ . 373 History of Antigua & Barbuda Antigua Then – Antigua Vision, Caribbean Reality: . 381 Margaret Lockett Notes on Contributors . 388 A Partial List of Antiguan and Barbudan Books . 390 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 FALL 2015 EDITOR’S NOTE 2015 It has been very difficult containing my enthusiasm while putting to- gether this issue of the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books. There is just so much in it that furthers the goals of the Review and its parent society, the Antigua and Barbuda Studies Association. In particular, the goal of re-constructing what Edgar Lake has called our “nascent literary tradition”. Not only does this issue contribute to this important goal, but it does so through the celebration of the thought of one of our major scholars and political activists, the legendary and irreplaceable Tim Hec- tor. In the selection of Hector’s reviews of our writers presented here, we can see quite clearly the features of this nascent literary tradition of which Lake has consistently reminded us. This is an important link between these two men that we need to keep more in mind. At the risk of breaking the flow of these introductory remarks, I cannot resist noting here that Tim Hector was my teacher at the Antigua Gram- mar School between 1961 and 1964, along with Gregson Davis, Henson Barnes, Lloydston Jacobs, Franklin Bennet, Reginald Samuel, Mr. Wall- ing, Errol James, and of course Father Brown and Dr. Alfred Blackett. ... 7 What more could I, as a young man, ask for? With this team, I left the ... Antigua Grammar School with the confidence that I could hold my own anywhere in the world. In many of Tim’s essays included here, you will hear the teacher in him come out in expressions such as, “Read it again” or “Grasp the branch of the point and not the leaves”. As a scholar and a writer, Tim was the master of the essay.
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