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Rex Nettleford Cultural Conference U.W.I. Opening Address

Dream is ultimately the foundation of all reality, just as faith is the breath of life in every believer. And that is why I think it appropriate to begin by tracing a geography of voices, which celebrate a curious paradox of fortune that Rex Nettleford describes as 'the plurality of forms whatever the unanimity of feeling'. The phrase is taken from his study The Caribbean: Crossroads of the Americas, and the full text reads:

"There is no political centre in the Caribbean of which I speak, nor any agreed on cultural kernel such as a common Caribbean language. Therein lies the region's strength to be sure, but also its weakness."

The plurality of forms, whatever the unanimity of feeling, is ...

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