Caribbean Reading Challenge – Kei Miller’s There Is an Anger that Moves

Kei Miller - There Is an Anger that Moves

CRC Review #1: “New Negroes From Africa”…

OK, so I had to read this for an assignment. I had to officially review it. Is that cheating? If it was, it was a pleasant cheat.

The full name of the book is “New Negroes From Africa”: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean and it was written by a friend, Roseanne Adderley, who’s also a pretty major historian on the Caribbean.

The fact is, though slavery and its aftermath is intrinsic to the way in which the Caribbean sees itself,  not all Africans who arrived in the Americas came as slaves.  Adderley’s study looks at another group of Africans — the more than 40,000 people rescued by the Royal Navy from illegal slavers after the 1807 abolition of the slave trade and settled throughout the British New World Colonies.

Caribbean Reading Challenge 2009

Well now.

The time has come.

Nanowrimo is over, and Christmas is around the corner, and it’s time to be thinking about new year’s resolutions.

So I’m in the process of trying to finish the Africa Reading Challenge I blogged about earlier. I’ve read two Abouet books and I’m still swimming in a slow and stately fashion through Ngugi’s latest. I’m going to save the last part of the challenge for Karen King-Abisola’s Hangman’s Game, though, because it’ll be a good segue into Caribbean books.

The Caribbean Reading Challenge kicks off on January 1st!

My books:

• The Hangman’s Game, Karen King-Aribisala
• “New Negroes from Africa”: slave trade abolition and Free African settlement in the nineteenth-century Caribbean, Roseanne Marion Adderley
• Omeros, Derek Walcott
• A Turn in the South, V. S. Naipaul
• There is an Anger that Moves, Kei Miller

More here.

Update – Caribbean Reading Challenge

Those of you who’re interested in it, have no fear — I’ve set up the page and it will be published come November.  In the meantime, spread the word.

Also in the meantime, some thoughts on literature, writing, etc.  This is once again shamelessly borrowed from Dave – Chris Abani on the stories of Africa.