C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James, best known as C. L. R. James, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and political activist. His works are known as pioneering and being an influential voice in postcolonial literature. James’ writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora.
