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Dr Kris Rampersad with Nobel Laureate Sir Vidya Naipaul Trinity Cross Award 1989, Hummingbird Medal Gold, 1970
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. True, it would be another 50 years before your Great Britain would understand how We, the many, can become a singular Trini verb. We is Trini, free to write and sing in we own diverse idioms.
In fifty years, Lizzie, we would be helping you to become one; we will show you, how, out of many disparate people, you too can create one nation, because We IS Trini, Lizzie.
I hoist meh national flag to you ….details of the feting and the liming in Letters to Lizzie coming to a bookshop near you, soon..
About Dr Kris Rampersad
Dr Kris Rampersad is an international multimedia culture and gender sensitive educator, consultant, facilitator and author bridging gaps between pre and post colonial worlds. To request services, place orders or collaborate on global interconnected activity make contact.
Yuh know in a review of my new book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago I deliberately described the Laventille Hills in the singular tense as The Hills IS metaphor and meant exactly that, but a reviewer of the book – a vvey good review it was too generallty though, too liberties to 'correct' the grammar and in quoting it said The Hills are …. I still believe as I meant it the Hills IS ….. just as We IS Trini ….
Yuh know in a review of my new book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago I deliberately described the Laventille Hills in the singular tense as The Hills IS metaphor and meant exactly that, but a reviewer of the book – a vvey good review it was too generallty though, too liberties to 'correct' the grammar and in quoting it said The Hills are …. I still believe as I meant it the Hills IS ….. just as We IS Trini ….