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Since its founding in 1969, the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou – popularly known as Fespaco – has built a reputation as Africa’s most important film festival. Earlier this year, a panel of key Fespaco contributors convened in London to honour the festival’s legacy. Nadia Denton, the driving force behind the ‘Beyond Nollywood’ initiative, was present to capture the highlights.
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) is continuing to mourn the passing of Emeritus Professor of English, Edward Alston Cecil Baugh, who it has described as a quintessential scholar and gentleman who exemplified the ideals of the institution,...
Our most heartfelt condolences for the family and friends of poet, scholar, and most generous educator Edward Baugh (January 10, 1936 – December 10, 2023). Walk in peace. Here are excerpts from The Poetry Archive. “I would have words as tenacious as mules/ to bear us, sure-footed/ up the mountain of night...” —from 'Elemental' by…
Morris, Baugh win Bocas Henry Swanzy Award Edward Baugh - THE 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award are Jamaicans Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris – both professors emeriti of the University of the West Indies. Baugh and Morris are widely considered pioneers of the study of West Indian literature, over careers that each span half a century. They are to be honoured by the Bocas Lit Fest with the annual Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, a media release said. The award, established in 2013, is named for the late BBC radio producer Henry Swanzy. I...
Toggle Sidebar 2021 Bocas Henry Swanzy Awardees Named The 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award are Jamaicans Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris — both professors emeriti of the University of the West Indies. Baugh and Morris are widely considered pioneers of the study of West Indian literature, over careers that each span half a century. Now they are to be honoured by the Bocas Lit Fest with the annual Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. The Award, established in 2013, is named for the late BBC radio producer Henry Swanzy. Irish by birth, Swanzy...