THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES
When Herman Griffith died in 1979 a news report of the death and burial informed a generation mostly ignorant of the contribution of the man or its significance in the social history of the country that claimed him as its own.
John Wickham (1923–1999) winner of the BBC World Service Competition of 1967, with his story Meeting at Milk Market was a meteorologist, literary editor, short-story writer and journalist. After a career in the World Meteorological Organisation Wickham followed in the footsteps of his celebrated father, journalist Clennell Wickham, and became literary editor of the Nation newspaper in Barbados. He served for many years as the editor of Bim, and his short stories have been widely anthologised. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. Among his published collections are Casuarina Row (1974) and Discoveries (1993).