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Farewell to a generation of Caribbean pioneers
As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’
Jamaicans aboard the liner Auriga

IT’S been a difficult few weeks. Firstly my lovely mother-in-law passed away followed just a few days later by my mother-in-law’s sister.

While I was out of the country recently I received word that my aunt — my dad’s sister — had taken the journey to join the ancestors.

My Aunt Daphne was, as far as I am aware, the last survivor of that generation who made the trip from Jamaica to England in search of a better life for themselves and, hopefully, for their children and subsequent descendants.

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