Caribbean Archives - Strangers Guide

Stranger Sounds: The Caribbean

Stranger’s Guide

Island-hopping funk and nostalgic sounds from the Caribbean

Food of the Gods

Sharon Kleiman

The Indigenous roots of chocolate

Standing at Havana’s Malecón

Carlos Manuel Álvarez

At the edge of the sea in Cuba

Feuding Fathers

Jonathan Ali

The legacies of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul

In the Eye of a Hurricane

Stranger’s Guide

Hamilton comes to Puerto Rico

Constant State of Emergency

Summer Eldemire

The Jamaica that goes unseen

King Yellowman

Garnette Cadogan

photography by Marlon James

Meeting the Jamaican dancehall legend

Hispaniola

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

photography by Mirissa Neff

The tense border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Stilt Walkers

photography by Maria Nunes

The Moko Jumbies of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival

My Father’s Land

Courtney Desiree Morris

The indelible marks of slavery in Jamaica