The Undiscovered Country

Andre Bagoo is the real deal as an essayist in that he asks interesting questions (was there an alternative to the independence that Trinidad sought and gained in 1962?) and is open to seeing where his ideas take him—quite often to unexpected places. He displays an intense interest in the world around him—including literature, art, film, food, politics, even Snakes and Ladders—but is just as keen to share with the reader some sense of how his point of view has been constructed. He writes as...