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always told them I would be going to Africa to find out what the true character of my history really was. I must admit that the decision to do so at that time was based on romantic assumptions and naivete rather than on any well considered realistic plan of action, However, in the five years that I spent in Europe at that time I underwent an apprenticeship in feature writing and freelance broadcasting that was unparalleled. Instead of pursuing formal academic training as most of my peers were doing at that time I became a fanatic devotee of creative writing."
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would ever witness my thirtieth birthday. For this reason I wrote at that time like one possessed and I still believe my work of that period represents the high points of my creative output. ... While the poetry and fiction that came later tends to be more cautious and formal than the fiction and poetry of my youth, in my journalistic output I seem to have become increasingly attached to formal reportage."
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Writing in 2023 at the age of 82, Barrett would say: "I left
Jamaica without informing any member of my family that I would do so in my nineteenth year and so my twenties were spent in absolute exile from the heart of my upbringing. Whenever anyone asked me then what my objective for the future was I
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Summing up his writing career in an article on his 70th birthday, Barrett said: "I can remember a time in my early twenties when I lived in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and
Tangier and, for a while in Tunisia and Libya, when I genuinely lived in a whirl of such oblivion that it appeared unlikely that I
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Barrett is also a broadcaster, particularly in
Nigerian radio and television, and has produced and presented critically acclaimed programmes on jazz, the arts, and Caribbean-African issues. He has been involved with many cultural initiatives, interacting with a wide range of African diaspora artists
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wrote of "the way in which it moves in worlds of magic and madness, myth and primitive ritual, not so as to exploit their strangeness, but to make them familiar, to emphasise their immediate reality, no less real than the reality of the natural and everyday. In his own distinctive way, Barrett is
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Barrett for "his love for Nigeria, which inspired his relocation from the Caribbean to settle in the country, raise a family and also take up Nigerian citizenship in the 80s", adding that "the thematic thrusts of writings on Africa, Africans in Diaspora and
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in general. Leaving
Jamaica in the early 1960s, he moved to Britain, where he freelanced as a broadcaster and journalist, also travelling and living elsewhere in Europe, before deciding to relocate to West Africa. Since the latter 1960s he has been based mainly in
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Britain, and became well known as an experimental and progressive essayist, his work being concerned with issues of black identity and dispossession, the
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Nigeria, where he was a founding member of the Nigerian Association of Patriotic Writers and Artistes. He became a naturalised Nigerian citizen in the mid-1980s.
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for more than three decades, as well as working as a photo-journalist for a variety of publications. He maintained weekly columns in several
Nigerian newspapers over the years, including his widely read "From the Other Side" in the Nigerian tabloid
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Having had in Paris a friend from Sierra Leone, Barrett decided that would be the first West
African country where he would spend some time, and during the few months he was there (one of his hosts being the then Vice-Chancellor of the
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was described as "ritual theatre with music and dance" that "expresses in terms of raw bodily experience the history of the Black peoples of the world through colonization, slavery and the complexities of the neocolonialist era".
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Afro-Americans have contributed significantly to global discourse on the history and identity of the black race and the renewed interest in the future of Africa and people of African descent."
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performed at the Keskidee Centre in 1972, directed by his great friend Pat Amadu Maddy. The black literary scene was a very active one in the early 1970s: Frank John,
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mentions a happy evening that Beauford spent here in the company of fellow painter Herb Gentry and writer Lindsay Barrett." Les Amis de Beauford Delaney.
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with the Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture; his great-uncle, A. P. Hanson, founded the Jamaica Agricultural Society in the early 1930s. Barrett attended
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was the eminence-already-grise. There were readings by all of them, lectures by visitors such as Soyinka."
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2531:"Third Area A Feminist Reading of Performance at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1970s"
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Royster, Philip M., "The Curse of Capitalism in the Caribbean: Purpose and Theme in Lindsay Barrett's
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From the 1960s onwards, Barrett authored many plays that were staged in England and in Nigeria.
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described the novel as "violently, lyrically, movingly original: A primitive masterpiece."
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painter Larry Potter, was one of the first publications of the press of the Paris bookshop
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3336:"Global Trade Talk: No Winner for Nigerian Book Prize; Planeta Prize Shortly"
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Barrett has been named as one of "The 11 Best Jamaican Writers", alongside
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The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975: A Research Compendium
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914–1967, I Dream a World
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Black Orpheus: Transition and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa
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From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840–1980
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Liberian Notes: A Study of Conflict and Resistance: A PACs Report
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doing something not dissimilar to what, in their separate ways,
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Barrett initially drew critical attention for his debut novel,
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Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia
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Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia
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have done". More recently, Al Creighton writing in the
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1293:(Onyoma Research Publications, Nigeria, 2010,
1017:In 1970, Barrett's writing received the fifth
934:conducted in London in June 1981, included in
2174:Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History
1206:Rainbow Reviews and Other Literary Adventures
940:Rainbow Reviews and Other Literary Adventures
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3215:"Danjuma : When Charity Begins at Home"
3147:"Understanding Nigeria's President Jonathan"
2901:"Liberia: Reasons Why New Democrat Was Born"
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1967:A Street Guide to African Americans in Paris
1174:(poems; Nigeria: Gaskiya Corporation, 1986,
1035:In August 2009, Barrett's poetry collection
1028:In 2004, writing about the depletion of the
3290:"Beyond Borders: Bill Hutson & Friends"
3074:"Abuja's 'Festival Of Praise' Comes Of Age"
3053:"A Tale Of Youthful Passion And Liberation"
2709:Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama
1910:"My role in civil wars, by Lindsay Barrett"
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1661:"I Want to Be a Book: On Becoming A Writer"
1588:Davidson, Gwyneth Harold (16 August 2015),
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1154:(novel; Enugu, Nigeria: Bladi House, 1977).
969:, and he also does reports for television.
780:Black Arts: an Anthology of Black Creations
437:literature at the invitation of Professors
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3091:"Fela Kuti: Chronicle of A Life Foretold"
2934:"Lindsay Barrett speaks", 3 November 2005
2755:, Urhobo Historical Society, August 2005.
1002:Beyond Borders: Bill Hutson & Friends
758:(2006), both books published in Nigeria.
3181:"Ecowas on the spot as summit commences"
3133:, James Currey Publishers, 1997, p. 220.
2079:(2009). Dissertations. Paper 74, p. 103.
1934:, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. 406.
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3063:), Rainbow Book Club, 10 February 2015.
2662:, Islington Local History Centre, 2009.
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1470:Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review
206:One of his sons is the Nigerian writer
2131:Barrett, Lindsay (16 September 2021).
2052:"Lindsay Barrett at 80 in West Africa"
2050:Barrett, Lindsay (15 September 2021).
1334:, 22 June 1981, 1405–07. Reprinted in
3325:, July 2004, via Black Academy Press.
2846:"History comes full cycle in Liberia"
2608:, Issue 2569, 1 February 1973, p. 15.
2027:Lindsay Barrett (17 September 2023),
1475:Perspectives of Black Popular Culture
675:, Karene Wallace, Basil Wanzira, and
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2671:Lauri Ramey with Paul Breman (eds),
2343:, Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2016.
2089:"Writers Seen at the Festival Scene"
1692:Barrett, Lindsay (6 February 2012).
1644:"Nigerian Author Fights Brain Drain"
1459:Obsidian: Black Literature in Review
687:'s arts and entertainment programme
3622:Nigerian people of Jamaican descent
3464:"Lindsay Barrett: An amazing story"
2862:Barrett, Lindsay (21 August 2012).
2787:, New York, Morrow, 1968. WorldCat.
2730:, Issue 2628, 21 March 1974, p. 51.
1722:"Lindsay Barrett: An amazing story"
918:, he wrote a Prologue for the 2010
659:(with an all-Black cast, including
3642:Radio reporters and correspondents
3280:, EIN Presswire, 6 September 2024.
2881:Barrett, Lindsay (24 March 2018).
2406:(London), 10 December 1967, p. 28.
2227:Olaoye, Wole (12 September 2021).
1894:. Indiana University, Bloomington.
1775:, Texas Archival Resources Online.
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3042:, Farafina Books, 13 August 2010.
2753:"Urhobo Names and Their Meanings"
2012:"Literary Coming of Age in Paris"
1882:, Archives of Traditional Music.)
1520:Journal of West Indian Literature
1188:(poems; Nigeria: Daylight, 2006,
1172:A Quality of Pain and Other Poems
1019:Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award
752:A Quality of Pain and Other Poems
748:Voices of the Living and the Dead
612:Barrett's third published novel,
331:Migration to Africa: 1966 onwards
135:Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award
3637:People of the Nigerian Civil War
3426:Bivan, Nathaniel (13 May 2017).
2482:Al Creighton (4 February 2018).
1336:Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1004:at the Mechanical Hall Gallery.
936:Conversations with Chinua Achebe
257:Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation
3627:Nigerian television journalists
3617:Naturalized citizens of Nigeria
3602:Male dramatists and playwrights
3582:21st-century Nigerian novelists
3562:20th-century Nigerian novelists
3547:20th-century Jamaican novelists
3232:"A historic legacy in pictures"
2549:, Caribbean360, 5 October 2007.
1231:And After This We Heard of Fire
1103:Gabriel Okara Literary Festival
1008:(31 August – 9 December 2016).
890:, and was the co-founder, with
770:, edited by LeRoi Jones (Imamu
701:And After This We Heard of Fire
2805:University of California Press
2565:, 12 June – 15 September 2019.
2377:, NBF News, 15 September 2011.
2153:interview with Lindsay Barrett
1606:"The 11 Best Jamaican Writers"
1507:Baugh, Eddie (November 2006),
1393:, "Song For Mumu" (review) in
1286:, Yandia Printing Press, 1993.
1233:, Ibadan Arts Theatre, Nigeria
1213:As playwright and scriptwriter
657:Institute of Contemporary Arts
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3449:, BBC Radio 4, 27 March 1974.
2018:, Illini Books, 1993, p. 257.
3127:"Setting up More Structures"
2309:, Alexander Gray Associates.
894:, of the Liberian newspaper
449:visiting Nigeria, including
345:World Festival of Black Arts
218:Lindsay Barrett was born in
3587:21st-century Nigerian poets
3513:(Nigeria), 22 October 2021.
3500:, 9 July 2021. Via YouTube.
3383:, Lagos, 14 September 2016.
2289:Ridley, Larry; Bill Myers,
1099:University of Port Harcourt
618:University of Port Harcourt
91:Clarendon College (Jamaica)
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3131:Chinua Achebe: A Biography
2835:, October 1970, pp. 30–33.
2547:"Horace Ove – Filmography"
2330:, Routledge, 2002, p. 214.
2280:(Nigeria), 9 January 2018.
2212:, NBF Topics, 13 May 2009.
1848:Edward Ricardo Braithwaite
1366:Fela: This Bitch of a Life
1341:Foreword to Amiri Baraka,
1226:Commonwealth Arts Festival
1208:(collected reviews, 2016).
1158:Veils of Vengeance Falling
924:Fela: This Bitch of a Life
878:Journalism and non-fiction
614:Veils of Vengeance Falling
519:Caribbean Artists Movement
363:University of Sierra Leone
298:. In 1966, Barrett's book
286:, Lebert "Sandy" Bethune,
163:Caribbean Artists Movement
3577:21st-century male writers
3557:20th-century male writers
3373:18 September 2016 at the
3198:"Adieu, Ma Mary Brownell"
3164:"Post-electoral Fall-out"
2176:. Routledge. p. 123.
1983:"'09: Nine are chosen..."
1544:John Benjamins Publishing
1509:"Confessions of a Critic"
1489:Barrett family of Jamaica
1272:, the Making of a General
1124:The State of Black Desire
922:edition of the biography
762:As editor and contributor
300:The State of Black Desire
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3572:21st-century journalists
3552:20th-century journalists
3474:Lindsay Barrett articles
3248:"Guest: Lindsay Barrett"
3238:(Nigeria), 7 March 2018.
2833:Black World/Negro Digest
2658:17 December 2013 at the
2590:Walmsley (1992), p. 301.
2199:(Nigeria), 2 April 2016.
2172:Chambers, Colin (2011).
2075:Anthony James Ratcliff,
1951:, September 1972, p. 17.
1632:"Barrett, Lindsay 1941–"
1536:"The Novel 1950 to 1970"
1347:Marion Boyars Publishers
1289:With Babatunde Faniyan,
1138:, 1967; Washington, DC:
1072:Margaret Cezair-Thompson
986:Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr
601:Barrett's second novel,
3496:with Charles Aniagolu.
3340:Publishing Perspectives
3323:ChickenBones: A Journal
3009:Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
2751:Aruegodore Oyiborhoro,
2517:, February 1972, p. 75.
2503:, Bocas Lit Fest, 2020.
2229:"Lindsay Barrett at 80"
1451:"The Narrative Line Of
1436:, 1986, pp. 26–34.
1140:Howard University Press
546:Howard University Press
513:Barrett's first novel,
347:, where – described by
313:Barrett's first novel,
308:Shakespeare and Company
263:Move to Europe: 1962–66
143:Carlton Lindsay Barrett
47:Carlton Lindsay Barrett
3567:21st-century essayists
3542:20th-century essayists
3505:"Legendary Lindsay@80"
3416:(Nigeria), 5 May 2017.
2797:Benson, Peter (1986).
2740:"King Carnival (1973)"
2683:Sighs of a Slave Dream
2354:"Penumbra Productions"
2297:, p. 57, 1 March 2013.
2141:– via AllAfrica.
1989:, 9 March 2010, p. 18.
1370:Cassava Republic Press
1238:Sighs of a Slave Dream
1006:University of Delaware
920:Cassava Republic Press
705:Sighs of a Slave Dream
624:Plays and film scripts
367:Davidson Abioseh Nicol
271:in London and for the
3446:Thirty-Minute Theatre
2956:. Nigeria. 6 May 2017
1514:23 March 2016 at the
1256:Thirty Minute Theatre
1113:Selected bibliography
1023:Illinois Arts Council
717:Thirty-Minute Theatre
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3597:Jamaican journalists
3490:, 16 September 2020.
3470:, 20 September 2016.
3380:The Simon Ateba News
3358:, 14 September 2016.
3116:, 29 September 2010.
3017:Black African Cinema
1860:Jay Saunders Redding
1761:Indo-Caribbean World
1728:, 20 September 2016.
1667:, 28 September 2012.
1575:4 March 2016 at the
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1449:Royster, Philip M.,
1224:Leicester University
1012:Awards and accolades
744:Linton Kwesi Johnson
634:Leicester University
431:University of Ibadan
273:Transcription Centre
3308:, 2 September 2016.
3187:, 17 December 2016.
2465:Caribbean Quarterly
2375:"Reflections at 70"
2119:Yevgeny Yevtushenko
2095:, June 1966, p. 50.
1987:NLNG - The Magazine
1832:Frank Kobina Parkes
1798:, Lindsay Barrett,
1634:, Encyclopedia.com.
1419:The Critical Survey
1396:Caribbean Quarterly
1317:Black Classic Press
1146:The Conflicting Eye
1030:Black Arts Movement
793:Transition Magazine
736:The Conflicting Eye
605:, was published in
557:Caribbean Quarterly
429:, and at Nigeria's
167:Black Arts Movement
3342:, 12 October 2009.
3230:Barrett, Lindsay,
3213:Barrett, Lindsay,
3196:Barrett, Lindsay,
3114:The Nigerian Voice
3089:Barrett, Lindsay,
3080:, 28 January 2018.
3061:The Virtuous Woman
3051:Barrett, Lindsay,
3039:Wizard of the Crow
3028:Barrett, Lindsay,
2999:, 29 October 2017.
2868:Making It Magazine
2852:, 21 January 2018.
2772:, 31 January 2016.
2679:Ashgate Publishing
2625:Edward Lucie Smith
2451:The New York Times
2250:Barrett, Lindsay,
2162:, 17 October 2009.
1960:"Michel Fabre and
1804:Imamu Amiri Baraka
1680:Making It Magazine
1659:A. Igoni Barrett,
1612:, 14 January 2016.
1440:Herdeck, Donald E.
1426:Daryl Cumber Dance
1403:Brathwaite, Edward
1306:Book contributions
665:Yulisa Amadu Maddy
551:The New York Times
521:. The reviewer in
486:Michael Abbensetts
423:Fourah Bay College
404:Nigerian Civil War
396:Mbari Artists Club
3408:Anote Ajeluorou,
3319:"A BAM Roll Call"
3221:, 7 January 2018.
3179:Lindsay Barrett,
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3099:169 (March 1998).
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3034:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
2991:Lindsay Barrett,
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2529:Eleanor Roberts,
2430:The Sunday Record
2364:on 11 April 2020.
2320:"Nazareth, H. O."
2272:Lindsay Barrett,
2208:Anote Ajeluorou,
2191:Anote Ajeluorou,
2151:Anote Ajeluorou,
1916:, 28 August 2011.
1908:Ozolua Uhakheme,
1852:Oscar R. Dathorne
1836:Orlando Patterson
1763:, 21 August 2019.
1698:The Africa Report
1682:, 21 August 2012.
1532:Hena Maes-Jelinek
1220:Jump Kookoo Makka
1200:Visiting Eternity
871:The Africa Report
855:The Black Scholar
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1949:Black World
1943:Ted Joans,
1812:Lewis Nkosi
1408:Black World
1332:West Africa
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1152:Lipskybound
1101:during the
1068:Kerry Young
1043:in Nigeria.
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901:West Africa
865:West Africa
860:Black Lines
845:New African
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372:West Africa
296:Herb Gentry
71:Nationality
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3488:Arise News
3253:Arise News
3108:Dro Ameh,
2722:"Listings"
2619:Full House
2035:, Nigeria.
1945:"A Memoir"
1914:The Nation
1792:Mongo Beti
1495:References
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1080:Kei Miller
1052:Roger Mais
1041:NLNG Prize
996:Visual art
892:Tom Kamara
840:Two Cities
836:Revolution
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699:Barrett's
689:Full House
681:Horace Ové
642:Home Again
470:Horace Ové
159:playwright
147:Eseoghene,
53:1941-09-15
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