Gordon Rohlehr: Historian and Prophet of the Caribbean spirit

(20 February 1942-29 January 2023) 

By Richard Drayton
Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London
“Well he lost his memory/
what a thing to stand up and see/
how it is he forget to remember/
what it is he forget remembering”
So the Mighty Spoiler, calypso surrealist, conjectured in “Lost Memories” (1960) how repression could be forgotten. 

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