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Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile
by Marika Sherwood
Lawrence and Wishart, £15
THIS new edition adds a preface by Professor Lola Olufemi and an appendix.
Claudia Jones’s achievements were those of one who “lived, moved and had her being” as first-order, Afrikan-Caribbean communist and community activist-intellectual, editor, newspaper publisher, actress poet and more.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1915, Jones moved to the US in 1924 and was spectacularly deported in 1955 to Britain, where she remained until her death in 1964.
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