It is quiet on Monday morning on Hulme High Street, south Manchester. It is not quite lunchtime and only a few shoppers are braving the February chill, though a blue sky threatens to raise spirits. The Spin is walking about in an anorak, trying to discover if West Indies’ thrilling win over England on the weekend meant anything to the British African-Caribbean community who first started arriving in Hulme and Moss Side in the 1960s and have made it their home (1.6 million Jamaicans – 9% of the island’s population left in the early 1960s – 9% of those came to the UK, and 2% of those to Manchester).
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Written by Tanya Aldred
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/05/cricket-caribbean-community-west-indies-the-spin under the title “The Spin | ‘I think cricket still means something to the global Caribbean community’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
