Poetry about emigration and immigration, racism and resistance, slavery and freedom. Bakari was born in St. Kitts & Nevis and has lived since the 1960s in the UK and East Africa.
Ishaq Imruh Bakari Livres
Ishaq Imruh Bakari's fourth collection begins with the story of the 'Negro of Banyoles', whose stuffed remains were displayed in European museums for nearly 170 years, and ends with a celebration of the life and music of the Jamaican jazz-musician Coleridge Goode. In between, the book explores the histories, geographies and the ironic 'impossibility' of being black in our time. From Grenfell, Guantanamo and Gaza, to the monsters of empire and neoliberalism selling their 'tar baby promises' of freedom, The Madman in this House is a book about resistance to colonialism in the twenty-first century.