"It is not possible to separate his intellectual legacy from his political stewardship over the affairs of Trinidad and Tobago for some twenty-five years. The inventory of failure and achievement will undergo great variations according to the angle of vision and sectoral interests which are being reflected. For a quarter of a century he would have been at the center of the most controversial exchanges at both the national and the regional level: Federation, Chaguaramas, Independence, The University of the West Indies, CARICOM, Cuba, Grenada, and his own February Rebellion of 1970." (author)
"On 4 December 1960 the Trinidad Guardian announced that Sir Gerald Wight had joined the Democratic Labour Party. The announcement was presented in such a way as to suggest that this was a feather in the cap of the Democratic Labour Party [DLP], and therefore the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago should follow the lead of Sir Gerald Wight. Consequently, in my address here in the University on 22 December, in which I reported to the people the outcome of the Chaguaramas discussions in Tobago, I poured scorn on the Guardian reminding them that our population of today was far too alert and sophisticated to fall for any such claptrap. I told the Guardian emphatically: Massa Day Done." (author)
A personal and political analysis of Eric Williams' contribution to nationalist ideas and to the way nationalism was perceived and was directly or indirectly beneficial to many of Mohammed's generation
Hodge candidly talks about her childhood, studies, life, etc. She also states that she writes about her cultural situation in the colonial era, but not as feminists take it. She also works for social advancement of women
