What do we recall? What do we remember? How do we remember? Will remembering release or will it be restrictive? Whose narratives are given agency in our memorializing? What are in our archives (including the cultural ones we carry around) in our remembering? What is our duty to and for memory that tell whole stories? How does remembering give agency to the multiplicity of experiences we embody?
Author: caribleaper
was born and brought up in Guyana where I was based until 1987. Currently moves between the UK and France. I consider myself part of a complex Caribbean and Indian Diaspora: complex as the 1st movement of my ancestors from India was not a choice. My religious heritages include Islam, Hinduism and Christianity – Caribbean style.
I have lived, studied and worked in Guyana, Jamaica, Grenada, Curacao, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. And over the last 20 years I have been living and working in Birmingham and London. Like so many other members of the Caribbean Diaspora, “home” has a strange ring as it continues to be "elsewhere" for me!
In the Caribbean I have been involved in a variety of ministries, including community development work in Guyana and Grenada and ecumenical theological education in Guyana, Grenada and Curacao.
My academic qualifications include a BA degree in theology (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica), an MA in theology and Caribbean Literature (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) and a PhD in Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology (University of Utrecht).
I am an avid cricketer, who gets excited over Bob Marley, big screens and good films, authentic Rum Punch [that is, Grenadian Style], good Caribbean Curry (largely creolised) and, of course the elusive Anancy