ABSTRACT
In 1962, Mustapha Matura came to England from Trinidad in a period of dramatic cultural and political shifts which transformed the austere 1950s and saw the emergence of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the United States. These movements provided an ideological backdrop to activists and cultural practitioners in an emergent Black arts movement in Britain. They would experience what the first wave of postwar immigrants had to endure as ‘dark strangers’ in a hostile racial climate.
