Lindsay Barrett

Carlton Lindsay Barrett was born on 15 September 1941 in Lucea. An apprentice at the Daily Gleaner, then a news editor on Jamaican radio in 1961, he went to England, worked for the BBC, then was a journalist in Paris from 1962 to 1966. After the World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, he settled in Nigeria in 1966, headed the information service of the East Central State during the civil war and became a Nigerian citizen in the 1980s. A poet under the name Eseoghene, he was also a playwright, essayist and photographer.

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• NovelSong for MumuLindsay Barrett · 1967Literature