Clem Seecharan
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Clem Seecharan, BA, MA, PhD [1] is a writer who was born in Guyana, where he taught at the University of Guyana for some years, after growing up in the beautiful countryside of East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Warwick and currently teaches on the Caribbean Studies programme at London Metropolitan University.
His publications include (with Frank Birbalsingh) Indo-West Indian Cricket (Hansib, 1988), India and the Shaping of the Indo-Guyanese Imagination: 1890-1920 (Peepal Tree, 1993) and Indians in British Guiana 1919-1929 (MacMillan). [2] In 2005 his biography of Jock Campbell, Sweetening Bitter Sugar. Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966 was published (Ian Randle Publishers).
He was awarded a Professorship at the University of North London (now a part of London Metropolitan University) in 2002. [3]
Clem Seecharan left his home village in Berbice, Guyana, with a yearning to understand his country and his people. Three decades later, he is one of the best-known historians of the Indo-Caribbean experience.
Professor Clem Seecharan arrived in Britain in 1986 with just US$12 in his pocket. He is now the head of Caribbean studies at London Metropolitan University, and one of the most distinguished Caribbean historians of his day. His latest book, Muscular Learning: Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies in the Late 19th Century, has just been published.
