ABSTRACT
There are, of course, some exceptions to this general tendency. Contributions by Gilroy and Hall are exceptional in treating the political discourse of African Caribbean people in Britain seriously (Gilroy 1987; Hall et al. 1978). In general, however, there is a persistent misunderstanding of the political action and political discourse which people with a Commonwealth Caribbean background have brought to bear on British society and the values these spring from. There is, in short, a glaring need for a balanced, wellinformed, and rigorous analysis of the organisational, ideological, and individual kinds of leadership people from the Caribbean bring to British society and its politics.1
