In The Diaspora

Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

By Kevin de Silva Kevin De Silva is a second generation Guyanese-Canadian, and a student of Political Science and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto.

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Toronto.

By Alissa TrotzAlissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column We have just commemorated the third anniversary of the brutal and inhuman assault on the village of Lusignan that ended with the slaughter of eleven persons, five of them children.

Melanie Newton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, CanadaBy Melanie Newton … he governed as if he felt predestined to never die… Gabriel García Marquéz, The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1975A week ago, Haitians the world over were stunned when former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years of comfortable political asylum in France.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column In their descriptions of Georgetown, older Guyanese in particular talk about the negative stereotypes associated with living or coming from the area known as ‘south of the burial ground’.

Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti, is a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author most recently of “The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Inter-national Community, and Haiti.” 

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.

By Iman Khan Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

By Iman Khan Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

By Norman Girvan and Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora column.

Brendan de Caires lives in Toronto. He has written book reviews for the Caribbean Review of Books, Kyk-Over-Al and the Literary Review of Canada.

By Harry Hergash Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.

By Colin Rickards Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.

By Kevin Edmonds Kevin Edmonds is a freelance journalist and graduate student at McMaster University’s Globalization Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Editor’s Note: Next week we will return with the concluding column on Edgar Mittelholzer The upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Haiti on November 28th highlight the complexities and difficulties of intergovernmental organizations which seek to chart foreign policy positions outside of the umbrella of American regional power and influence.

By Colin Rickards Colin Rickards is an author, journalist/broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.

Megan Rivers-Moore did her doctoral work on sex tourism in Costa Rica.

By Savitri Persaud Savitri Persaud was born in Guyana. She is pursuing her Masters degree in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column We are facing an epidemic of violence against women and children.

This week features Christian Campbell, a young writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage, an Oxford Rhodes Scholar and member of the teaching Faculty of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.