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The best advice that any of my lecturers at university gave me was to leave. The lecturer – Ferdinand Dennis, a British author who had been born in Jamaica and written a well-regarded novel, Duppy Conqueror, about his heritage – had a kindly bearing and a gravelly voice. I think he was meant to advise me on my writing but must have seen that I needed br…

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