Joel Miller is one of Jamaica’s fastest rising filmmakers. The young creative first started his journey into the arts well over a decade ago in the theatre when he set his mind to writing his first play. With stellar reception, Sins of the Father.
A report by Jules Franco for OZY. Jamaican poet, actor and folklorist Louise Bennett-Coverley overturned a colonial legacy and fostered cultural pride. It was Louise Bennett’s first public performance. The 17-year-old recited one of her poems in patois, a radical act in mid-20th-century Jamaica, where a mastery of standard English was considered essential for social and economic…
THE EDITOR, Madam: In every society, the cosmology of a culture is to be found in its indigenous expression, its various art forms, and specifically in its language which is an expression of the ethos of the people. What is language and its.