Jamaican writer, Honor Ford-Smith, remembers Caribbean icon - Rex Nettleford

By Honor Ford-Smith

The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston High school in 1968 around the time of the Rodney uprising to speak to our 6th form about Black Power. I don’t remember what he said because his vocabulary consisted mainly of words I had never heard before and his utterances bounced off my 16 year old brain before I could catch hold of them and translate them into plain English. But I remember vividly how his presence filled our Presbyterian classroom and how his pink shirt glowed against his obsidian skin. I remember the elegance of his postures and the hand that moved back and forth with his words.

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