The University of the West Indies Press
100+ Voices for Miss Lou: Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays
Opal Palmer Adisa
Literature & Fiction
100+ Voices for Miss Lou: Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays
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Miss Lou had the instinctive wisdom to relate language to identity. As a people who have long since lost our identity, we continue to search for it.

There is an interrelationship between language – the words we use – and our identity. In that regard, Miss Lou helped us to remember who we are. However, mental slavery is still with us. While we continue to deny our own language, our way of expressing ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our language is part of our identity as Jamaicans.

Although a lot of our unique cultural DNA disappeared during the Middle Passage, Miss Lou had the wisdom and the courage to grasp what remained of that DNA and give voice to the voiceless. She did it with such decisiveness that I have lived to see the day when Patwa, or Jamaican Language as it is properly called, has taken its rightful place as an important part of our identity.

That is Miss Lou’s legacy.

—Beverly Manley-Duncan

Language
English
ISBN
9789766408893
Foreword
Simply Love
Lorna Goodison
Acknowledgements
Louise Bennett-Coverley
A Cultural Icon
Introduction
Promise Fulfilled
Opal Palmer Adisa
An Outstanding Cultural Influencer
Olivia Grange
A Formidable Woman
Percival J. Patterson
One Big Family
Love Letta
Louise Bennett
My Mother, My Friend
Fabian Coverley
A Strict but Wonderful Mother
Christine Swaby
Tenky Miss Lou, Tenky
Joan Andrea Hutchinson
Together for Life*
Louise and Eric Coverley
Mervyn Morris
One of the Great Joys of My Life
Easton Lee
Conversation, Consultation, Communication, Celebration
Marjorie Whylie
A Journey of Love
Barbara Gloudon
Boonoonoonoos
Linda Gambrill
You Can’t Bury Creativity
Neil Armstrong
A Family Connection
Lincoln Robinson
Learning from Her Dynamics
Pauline Stone Myrie
If the World Was Like Miss Lou
Bongo Herman
Lessons from Miss Lou
Oliver Samuels
Jamaican Through and Through
Franklyn Horace Campbell
Miss Lou fe Real
Paul Keens-Douglas
“Ac’ chile, ac’!”
She Helped Shape My Life
Fae Ellington
Memories of Ring Ding
Eric Douglas
Being Miss Lou
Faith D’Aguilar
Miss Lou, Miss Lou
Mutabaruka
Things My Mother Taught Me
Lolita Knibb Phillips
Reflections and Memories
Pamela Appelt
“Mi just like people”
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Reaffirming Our Culture
Noh Lickle Twang
Louise Bennett
Speaking Jamaican, Talkin Farin’*
Amina Blackwood Meeks
Miss Lou We Celebrating
Juliet Holness
Keep We Culcha Alive
Patricia Reid-Waugh
1-2-3 Aunty Lou Lou
Michael Holgate
Smile Queen
Ashli-Ann Douglas
Eloquently Expressed in Patwa
Jean Small
Mi Miss You Bad
fabian m. thomas
We Could Be Whoever She Was
Velma Pollard
Patwa Pride
Melissa McKenzie
A Ring Ding Love Affair
Kevin A. Ormsby
For Miss Lou
Lilieth H. Nelson
Tan Tuddy wid Har Pen
Shelley Sykes-Coley
Birthday Beach Bonfire
Beverley Elaine Wright
If It Weren’t for Miss Lou . . .
Norma Darby
Find de Riddim
Tejan Green Waszak
Miss Lou Mek History
Beverley Lashley
She Find Wi Tung fi Wi
Curtis Myrie
Founder of the Heritage Singers in Canada
Grace Carter-Henry Lyons
Neva Bi Figatten
Iconic Miss Lou
Jayna Shields
Amazing Grace
Kei Miller
Ode to Miss Lou
Kalliah Whaynette Minto
Our Jamaican Queen Comes to St Andrew High School
Margaret Reckord Bernal
From Miss Lou
2019 Scene
Davia Ellis
Everytime, I Am a Jamaican
Courtney Greaves
Talk Yuh Talk Regardless
Vivian Crawford
Using the Language of My Heart
Farika Berhane
Beneath the Folk Caricature
Tommy Ricketts
AUNTY ROACHY SEH
Dutty Tough
(Excerpt)
Louise Bennett
Slanguage
Cherry Natural
My Jamaican Tongue
Malachi Smith
She Who Laughs the Revolution
Andrene Bonner
Fowl Pill Bruk Nes
Shirley Massey
Adina
Deanne Kennedy
Exilia
Donna P. Hope
Bawl Woman Bawl
Pamela Mordecai
Tooth-Ache*
Ruth Howard
Thelma’s Precious Cargo*
Kwame Dawes
Di House
Delroy McGregor
Licky Licky
Kemar Cummings
Miss Joyce Mongrel Dawg
Raul A. Davis
Abeng in Beijing
fabian m. thomas
My Chinaman Jump to the Riddim of Jah
Jean Lowrie-Chin
’88 Storm
Christopher Allen
Mi Dear Sista Sandy
Sean C. Harrison
Oiii, Driva!
Sihle Atkinson
Di Jril a di Ting
Annika Simone Rowe
Cat
Ann-Margaret Lim
Black
Lattecha Willocks
Puss and Dawg Luck
Alecia Maria Sawyers
Fever Grass
Mel Cooke
Gum Bwile
Lisa Gaye Taylor
Walk Good and Good Duppy Walk wid Yu
Alma MockYen
Ice Cream Sundays
Schontal Moore
Mi and di Tief
Aisha Smith
Bruce Ghost
Maxine J. Brown
Matches Shoes Box
Antonia Valaire
Queenie Queenie and Colonial Empire
Lillian Allen
Goodnite
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Nativity*
Lasana M. Sekou
Slavery in Reverse
Emile Grant
Pastor
Susan Lycett Davis (“Dr Sue”)
Evelyn’s Wisdom
Sonia S. Williams
No More “Smalling Up” of Me*
Jean Wilson
Use My Tongue Wisely
Marlon Henry
Jamaican Women
Quewana Collman
Mi Name Jamaica
Owen Blakka Ellis
Chanting Down Babylon
Alexandria Miller
Louise Go a Country
Nadia L. Hohn
Soun de Abeng fi Nanny
Jean “Binta” Breeze
Engaging in a Quarrel With History
Colonization in Reverse
Louise Bennett
“Pedestrian Crosses”
Sites of Dislocation in “Postcolonial” Jamaica*
Carolyn Cooper
The Truth Must Reveal Itself
Klive Walker
Shifting Bodies and Missing Commodities
Louise Bennett on the Impacts of World War II on Working-Class Jamaicans
Dalea Bean
Miss Lou
Organic Intellectual of the Jamaican Masses in Her Examination of Racial Politics
Ajamu Nangwaya
The Cunny Jamaican ’Oman and the Value of a Positive Counter-Narrative
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
The Language Quarrel in Jamaica
A Pedagogical Conversation
Isis Semaj-Hall and L.A. Wanliss
Stitching Time Together
Meeting and Greeting in Caribbean Song
Hubert Devonish
The Politics of Language and Identity in Jamaica: From Miss Lou to De Bumpy Head Gal
Carolyn Allen
Celebrating Miss Lou’s Historical Record
A Canadian Perspective
Vivian Lewis
Jamma Language Ketch a University
The UWI Mona Library
Archiving the Life and Works of a Phenomenal Woman
The Honourable Louise Bennett-Coverley
The National Library Of Jamaica
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