IS IT REALLY OVER???

Nottinghill Carnival 2011 photo by Ryan Black

That's the question that flooded my mind as I woke up this morning or rather this afternoon after sleepin' in for most of the day. Carnival IS really over. I spent most of the night last night at dinner with two friends talking about that sence of euphoria that comes over you in the middle of the celebration of Carnival, and Nottinghill is no exception; more so J'Ouvert.. It is truly leveling and humbling. 


No matter who we are, whether a top end model just spotted on the street; or gracing the pages of  a multimillion dollar fashion campaign, Carnival has the power and ability to make us all one. For that is what it does. The stevedore and the bank manager hold hands as they gyrate to pulsing rythms that lead the way to ensuring that at the heart of it all we KNOW what is right. 


There are no isms or politricks, no dem and we,  just us and if we can exist together in such joy and abandonment for ONE DAY...., why not longer. Why not for life.

le boys as i spoted them last carnival

and gracing the cover of OSWALD BOATENG's WEBSITE THIS YEAR

rasconrad truly enjoyed 

all that was the carnival this year 

and is looking forward eagerly 

to the Thames festival 

that follows in two weeks. 

See you there