recounting lives of rebellion

Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience

Sandra Lawrence is a journalist and author

natural and synthesised

“ Cord Riechelmann

Return to My Native Land toxic swamp recounting lives of rebellionThis blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the ngritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.