The Empire Shuts Its Mouth: Writing West Englies

When you’re a member of a West Indian family and have grandparents from the islands, you pick up a few things.

Previously published in The Nenequirer

Colonialism has been on the tip of my tongue since I was old enough to speak, and the fact I was not taught it at school is a sad indictment on the British education system, since my experience is universal to everybody I know. My knowledge about slavery and the British Empire comes from books, the…