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Independence and Nation-Making
by Caldwell Taylor
A Nation is the ecstatic electricity that inhabits May Fortune’s* voice
Big Drum dance
A Nation is the healing thunder of Sugar Adams’ * drum
A Nation is a concert of comforting conceits
A Nation is the repository of our dreams
And a Nation is the insurgent sea that lifts our boats
our nets
our hopes
our heroes
our sheroes.
A Nation is a site and sight of struggle, a thing calypsonian “Black Wizard” noted:
“If you want to get rid of Babylon and build a just Nation
You’ve got to struggle on and on…..”
* May Fortune (1909-1973)
*Furgueson “Sugar” Adams (1890-1983)
Caldwell Taylor is a former Grenada diplomat and editor of Big Drum Nation.
February 7, 2016
May Fortune is my great grandmother I would love to hear as many recording as possible which im struggling to find on the net. It is my uncles funeral next Thursday and we would love to play the big drum May and Sugar Adams music at the grave side. My uncle was brought up my her in carriacou and this will make us very happy and bring us comfort