From the monthly archives:

May 2003

On Being Bahamian

26 May 2003

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 [...]

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On Independence

19 May 2003

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 [...]

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On Culture Shock

12 May 2003

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 [...]

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