Carnival Is “We Thing”

      

PART 1—THE INTRODUCTION

                                       It would be hard to find a Trinbagonian who does not think of Carnival as our (we) thing. We all believe that the festival known as Carnival is special to Trinidad and Tobago and that our version of the festival is the best in the world. In a chapter, “Carnival Is “We Thing” of a forthcoming book we examined this proposition to see if there is any truth to it.

     The best way to proceed would be to try to get a more complete understanding of Carnival by asking fundamental questions about it: who? what and how? when? where? and why? After we have looked into Carnival following the lead of these key questions, we will be in a better position to see if we Trinbagonians are right in laying claim to having the best Carnival in the world.

I HAVE DIVIDED THE CHAPTER INTO 22 PARTS WHICH WILL BE POSTED SERIALLY