George Lamming (1927-2022) was a Barbadian poet, novelist, broadcaster and essayist. He moved to England in 1950, and a year later became a broadcaster for the BBC Colonial Service; his writing and his voice helped shape the program. His first novel In the Castle of My Skin (1953) combined poetry and memoir, and was immediately recognized as a classic of Anglophone Caribbean literature. He wrote it at the age of 23, and later came to regard it as insufficiently critical of the violence of colonialism “I still shared in that innocence that had socialised us into seeing our relations to empire as a commonwealth of mutual interests.” His sequel, The Emigrants, chronicled Lamming’s experience as a member of the so-called “Windrush generation,” following its protagonist from Barbados to Britain. In 1980, he returned to Barbados, where he continued to write, to lecture, and to deepen his engagement with Barbadian and global politics.