UP IN MAHAICA

About the Book

Up in Mahaica: Stories from the Market People is a collection of short stories about unusual characters in an oil refinery in southern Trinidad. They scheme against each other and resort to obeah to win affection or to avenge real or imagined offenses. And through it all, most residents secretly want to abandon the poverty of their post colonial existence and escape to the middleclass mirage the oil company created up in Mahaica. The open-air market vendors, the only ones not beholden to the British company, hold the community’s secrets.

About the Author

Rev. Dr. G. Modele Clarke was born in Trinidad, West Indies. He is senior pastor at New Progressive Baptist Church in Kingston, New York, and has lectured and ministered in Uganda, Trinidad, Grand Cayman Island, and Puerto Rico. A retired faculty member with the School of Communication and the Arts, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Clarke taught several journalism-related classes. He graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz and from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He was a reporter, editor, columnist, freelance magazine writer, and public relations practitioner. He received masters of divinity (MDiv) and doctor of ministry (DMin) from Trinity Theological Seminary. He was also inducted into the National Omicron-Psi Honor Society for his distinguished theological scholarship and community service. Clarke also studied at New York Theological Seminary, where he was the recipient of the Benjamin Mays Fellowship. Clarke lives in Port Ewen, New York, with his wife, Evelyn.