Yog Mahadeo

Black Midas. A great coming together of post-colonial cultural fragmentation, the belief of a Midas touch especially in the non-white, non-colonial peoples. What a march through emotions! A mixture of characters who were unscrupulous, conniving, kind, criminal - but all with a dream of immense riches, yet embodied in the words, “How is it that you come back and you en’t bring no wondrous thing to show we? How is it?... How is it? (Black Midas, 19, 265-266)” Black Midas is a book about "pork-knockers" in Guyana, the hunt for diamond and gold using very basic tools; the tragic and fatal accidents that take place and the raw exposure of human emotions in the face of loss of wealth and life. A must-read!1111

Very relevant in a rapidly changing world.