1. Particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, Lindsay Barrett was a participant in significant drama and film projects in Britain, and became well known as an experimental and progressive essayist, his work being concerned with issues of black identity and dispossession, the African Diaspora, and the survival of descendants of black Africans, now dispersed around the world.
Lindsay Barrett was born in Lucea, Jamaica, into an agricultural family.
Lindsay Barrett told us that the future held great potential for the restoration of our souls if we found ways to renew our links with the continent.
Less than a year later, Lindsay Barrett moved to England, where he worked as a freelancer for the BBC World Service in London and for the Transcription Centre, an organisation that recorded and broadcast the works of African writers in Europe and Africa.
In 1962, Lindsay Barrett went to France, and during the next four years travelled throughout Europe and North Africa as a journalist and feature writer.
Lindsay Barrett took part in Festac '77, held in Lagos from 15 January 1977 to 12 February 1977, and features in the 2019 book FESTAC '77: The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture.
Lindsay Barrett has worked as a lecturer and has taught at many educational establishments in West Africa, including in Ghana, at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, and at Nigeria's University of Ibadan, where he lectured on the roots of African and Afro-American literature at the invitation of Professors Wole Soyinka and the late Omafume Onoge.
Lindsay Barrett is a broadcaster, particularly in Nigerian radio and television, and has produced and presented critically acclaimed programmes on jazz, the arts, and Caribbean-African issues.
Lindsay Barrett has been involved with many cultural initiatives, interacting with a wide range of African diaspora artists visiting Nigeria, including Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Cliff, Jayne Cortez, Melvin Edwards, and others.
Lindsay Barrett can convey sensuality that is innocent and tragedy that is no less frightening for being unsought.
Lindsay Barrett's third published novel, Veils of Vengeance Falling, appeared in 1985 and has been used as a set book in the Department of English at the University of Port Harcourt.
Various plays by Lindsay Barrett have been performed at the Mbari Theatre of the University of Ibadan and on Nigerian National Radio.
Lindsay Barrett's work was broadcast in the BBC's Thirty-Minute Theatre radio programme.
Lindsay Barrett has occasionally written film scripts and commentaries, as for Horace Ove's 1973 BBC documentary King Carnival.
Lindsay Barrett is in addition a poet, whose early militant poems dealt with racial and emotional conflict and exile, as evidenced in his collection, The Conflicting Eye, published under the pseudonym "Eseoghene" in 1973.
Lindsay Barrett's work has appeared in anthologies, including Black Fire: an Anthology of Afro-American Writing, edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, and Black Arts: an Anthology of Black Creations in 1969.
Lindsay Barrett wrote the foreword to a new edition of Amiri Baraka's Four Black Revolutionary Plays: Experimental Death Unit 1, A Black Mass, Great Goodness of Life, and Madheart, published in 1997.
Lindsay Barrett has been an associate editor of several periodicals, including Afriscope in Nigeria, and Transition Magazine in Uganda, and he was a contributor to seminal black British publications in the 1960s such as Daylight, Flamingo, Frontline and West Indian World.
Lindsay Barrett was a correspondent throughout Africa for the London-based news magazine West Africa for more than three decades, as well as working as a photo-journalist for a variety of publications.
Lindsay Barrett maintained weekly columns in several Nigerian newspapers over the years, including his widely read "From the Other Side" in the Nigerian tabloid The Sun.
Lindsay Barrett continues to work as a political analyst and commentator on Nigerian current events.
Lindsay Barrett has regularly written on music, literature, film and other cultural and social issues.
In 2016, Lindsay Barrett published a collection entitled Rainbow Reviews and Other Literary Adventures.
Lindsay Barrett's articles appear regularly in Nigerian newspapers such as Vanguard, Daily Trust, This Day, and The Guardian, and he does reports for television.
Lindsay Barrett is a contributor to the 2024 book Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years, with other featured writers including Anton Phillips, Fred D'Aguiar, Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr, Ray Shell, and others.