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May
26
On Being Bahamian
May 26, 2003 | 2 Comments
Just recently, during the lead-up to the FNM convention, the question was raised about whether race was still an issue for the Bahamian electorate. Of course it is. Race is the only marker of identity that is consistently invoked by Bahamians when we imagine ourselves.
Note: I say consistently. When describing oneself [...]
May
19
On Independence
May 19, 2003 | 2 Comments
When I was a little girl, my mother used to tell me: “If you aim for a star, you might hit a tree.†Being a rather literal-minded child, I used to imagine myself in a gigantic catapult, aiming at Polaris, and crashing into the dilly tree in our back yard on the way.
The [...]
May
12
On Culture Shock
May 12, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Well, the first thing I should say on this topic is that I lived out of the country for eight years.
Not that my absence was planned. In 1992, I took advantage of a scholarship that was being offered in honour of the Quincentennial and went to England to pursue graduate studies; in 1995, the [...]