Lindsay Barrett

Who is Lindsay Barrett?

Carlton Lindsay Barrett, also known as Eseoghene, is a Jamaican poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist and photographer who lives in Nigeria. Particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, Barrett was 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. One of his sons is the Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett, with whom he has also worked professionally.