Morgan Dalphinis

An examination of leadership and management, highlighting dilemmas facing black people who aspire to leadership roles in British institutions. It draws on management theories, case studies and analysis of historical and cultural influences shaping both the experiences of these aspirant leaders and their followers.

"To speak a language means more than to use a certain morphology and syntax, it means to support the whole weight of a culture and civilization" (Fanon) Under slavery, African languages were violently suppressed. Despite this, Africans in the Caribbean preserved the grammatical core of their African mother tongues, while using the vocabularies of their European slave masters. The Creole languages of the Caribbean were born from this great creative feat of resistance. This book starts with a brief description of the grammatical structure of African (Niger-Congo) languages. It then examines the social and linguistic history of the languages of the Caribbean, identifying their debt to the languages of Africa.This debt is also examined in the light of Creole theory up to 2014. The oral literatures of the Caribbean Creoles and their relationship to their audiences are considered. Their debt to the oral tradition of West African is identified. The final chapter looks at the implications for the teaching of English as a second language in schools and adult education and also considers Creoles as a medium for teaching. This revised edition is issued in response to strong demand. The work will be of interest to linguists, educators and policymakers and to anyone with an interest in the history of the Caribbean.

L'ONU d signa l'ann e 2019 ann e des langues autochtones. Le temps est venu de traiter des liens intimes entre pouvoir, action et m moire. l'intersection de la langue, de la politique de la m moire et du tourisme patrimonial, cet ouvrage collectif d montre qu'une r flexion sur le patrimoine cr ole en termes de politique ducative et d'engagement populaire contribue enrichir ce champ d' tudes universitaires et nourrir une dynamique dans l'action des praticiens sur le terrain. En abordant la nature d'une Cara be d coloniale et ses implications sociopolitiques, linguistiques et m me arch ologiques, il traite d'un certain nombre de th mes organis s en deux parties et en neuf chapitres. Notre souhait est de contribuer au d veloppement des tudes m morielles transnationales ayant pour objet les expressions linguistiques du cr ole. Celles-ci, en fa onnant un sentiment d'appartenance au patrimoine cara b en, s'inscrivent pleinement dans une pr occupation majeure de pr servation de ces langues autochtones face des enjeux de domination g opolitique sous les divers aspects de la globalisation.

This is a second volume of collected poems covering 1985 to 2020. "Bwa Dife is a tough poem, asking no sympathy and suggesting that all truths, even the unpalatable, must be told. My main pleasure in the collection is in the voice and rhythm of the St Lucian Creole, the acceptance and elevation of a language that, in its structure and expression, carries the stories of the people." Merle Collins, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Maryland.