Advance Statements for Black African and Caribbean people (AdStAC): protocol for an implementation study by Abigail Babatunde, Alex Ruck Keene, Alan Simpson, Steven Gilbert, Lucy Stephenson, Kia-Chong Chua, Gareth Owen, Adelabu Jonathan Simpson, Shubulade Smith, Claire Henderson

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Prevalence and progression of diabetic nephropathy in South Asian, white European and African Caribbean people with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jadawji, C, Crasto, W, Gillies, C, Kar, D, Davies, MJ, Khunti, K, Seidu, S

Language issues in literary frames: the celebration of orality and Creole identity by Simone Schwarz-Bart by Vanessa Massoni da Rocha

“…It is to highlight the culture and the arts to make the Caribbean people from the apprecia­tion of the creole language and orality, in which emerge proverbs, stories, songs and aphorisms able to reiterate the link between memory and orality in the fabric of ro­mance. …”
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Caribbean travel and the "realistic shock": Lamming, Naipaul, Condé by Ghosh, W

“…In this trope, an encounter with the “real” Africa dispels earlier “romantic” notions of the continent as source-culture or homeland for Caribbean people. During the years of decolonization and independence, George Lamming and V. …”

Transplantation et hybridation transculturelle dans la poésie d’Olive Senior by Myriam Moïse

“…The planted seed becomes an allegory of spatial invasion and of remapping, while its hybrid crop resists and comes to feed the memory of the Caribbean people. This poetry of ambivalence is at the heart of the Caribbean diasporic imagination and contributes to the construction of new transcultural identities that proliferate in diasporic spaces.…”
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La Lézarde (1958) et Malemort (1975) d’Édouard Glissant : dire l’esthétique archipélique depuis la Martinique et l’aire des Caraïbes by Rhimi, Mohamed Lamine

“…In others words, the fiery indictment that the writer has drawn up against the oppressors is inextricably linked to a plea made to defend the cause of West Indian culture, by exhorting the Caribbean people to recover their historical memory and to take their destiny into their own hands. …”
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The Influence of Spanish Lexicon on Limonese Creole: Negative Implications by Ginneth Pizarro Chacón, Paula Fallas Domian

“…After working in the construction of the railroad that communicates Limón with San José, many Afro-Caribbean people who had arrived during the 1870’s, especially from Jamaica, stayed and established themselves in Limón. …”
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How has the Olympic legacy transformed the heart of East London? Understanding socio-economic exclusions and disproportionate COVID-19 impact on minoritised communities through a r... by Farjana Islam

“…The findings provide a further understanding of factors such as housing and health-related inequalities and sub-standard living conditions, which may have contributed to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Bangladeshi and African Caribbean people living in East London boroughs. Given the scale of the pandemic, the paper argues that a greater understanding of the socio-structural problems and barriers arising out of poverty and deprivation is needed in order to formulate appropriate policy interventions to reduce disproportionate social, economic and health-related impacts on some minoritised communities, which could be achieved through residents' active participation and appropriation at different stages of the legacy-led regeneration process.…”
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No person left behind: Mapping the health policy landscape for genomics research in the Caribbean by Jyothsna Bolleddula, Donald Simeon, Simon G. Anderson, Lester Shields, Jasneth Mullings, Pilar Ossorio, Averell Bethelmey, Anna Kasafi Perkins

“…Such under-representation may result in Caribbean people being underserved by precision medicine and other public health benefits of genomics. …”
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Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed: Locating Jamaica Through Cuba by Faith Smith

“…In their oft-cited manifesto, the Martinican Creolists exhort Caribbean people to forego their continuing allegiances to the “mythical shores” of various old worlds, and to affirm instead the “alluvial Creoleness” that binds (or that ought to bind) them to each other, and to other communities across the globe with a similar plantation history: “Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles; “[the Creole language] is the initial means of communication of our deep self, or our collective unconscious, of our common genius, and it remains the river of our alluvial Creoleness.” …”
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The causes of Caribbean and African diasporic movements in Lakshmi Persaud’s Sastra and Caryl Phillips’s the Nature of Blood by Mohammed Wagaa, Intisar, Mani, Manimangai, Talif, Rosli, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Thus, the study unravels the synergetic hybrid identity, as conceived by Persaud and Phillips, to exalt the position of the displaced African and Indo-Caribbean people.…”
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Carotid atherosclerosis in people of European, South Asian and African Caribbean ethnicity in the Southall and Brent revisited study (SABRE) by Rayan Anbar, Rayan Anbar, Nish Chaturvedi, Sophie V. Eastwood, Therese Tillin, Alun D. Hughes

“…In comparison with Europeans (EA) South Asian (SA) people in UK experience higher risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, while African Caribbean people have a lower risk of CHD but a higher risk of stroke.AimTo compare carotid atherosclerosis in EA, SA, and AC participants in the Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) study and establish if any differences were explained by ASCVD risk factors.MethodsCardiovascular risk factors were measured, and carotid ultrasound was performed in 985 individuals (438 EA, 325 SA, 228 AC). …”
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Leroy Clarke entre poésie et peinture, Chantre de la spiritualité et de la liberté by Patricia Donatien-Yssa

“…Painting and writing are, for Clarke, ritual acts of sublimation of the original and historical suffering of the Caribbean peoples, which transform the unspeakable and the unbearable into aesthetic realizations.So, in Clarke’s works, signs, words, traces and colours are organised in an identical dynamic of accumulation, correspondence and swarming which place the observer in an interstice outside time and space where he can be immersed in an embracing plenitude.…”
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Leroy Clarke entre poésie et peinture, Chantre de la spiritualité et de la liberté by Patricia Donatien-Yssa

“…Painting and writing are, for Clarke, ritual acts of sublimation of the original and historical suffering of the Caribbean peoples, which transform the unspeakable and the unbearable into aesthetic realizations.So, in Clarke’s works, signs, words, traces and colours are organised in an identical dynamic of accumulation, correspondence and swarming which place the observer in an interstice outside time and space where he can be immersed in an embracing plenitude.…”
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