My family and I moved to Barbados in 1962 from Guyana. We were to be reunited with my father who had left Guyana two years earlier. After a short stay in my grandfather’s house in Grazettes, we moved to the middle part of Wavell Avenue1. Wavell Avenue – a street that had been renamed sometime
Bob Marley’s nostalgic song of domestic intimacy and communal survival in fabled Trench Town, “No Woman, No Cry,” functions, I propose, as a decidedly ironic frame for Rita Marley’s iconoclastic autobiography.
She dreaded the dawn. Often she would wake thinking that it had just been a bad dream. Then she would realise that she was mistaken, that it was not a nightmare.
Kamau was born on 11 May 1930 to Edward Hilton Brathwaite and his wife Beryl Emmeline, at the “Round House”, Bay Street, Barbados, the first of five children of the union.
