Jan Carew

Jan Carew was born in 1920 in Agricola, a village on the coast of British Guiana (1925 according to one source). A customs officer in Georgetown, then an employee in price control in Port of Spain, he left in 1945 to study in the United States, then in Prague and at the Sorbonne. He later lived in the Netherlands, in England, where he was an actor and radio broadcaster, in Jamaica, Ghana and Canada, directed culture in Guyana under Cheddi Jagan in 1962, and ended as professor of African-American studies at Northwestern. He died in 2012 in Louisville.

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• NovelBlack MidasJan Carew · 1958Literature