Maureen Warner-Lewis is Emeritus Professor of African-Caribbean Language and Orature in the Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies , Mona, where her teaching specialisations were Anglo-Saxon, West Indian, African, and Oral Literatures. Her research on African cultural and linguistic retentions in the Caribbean has resulted in the publication of Guinea's Other Suns: the African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (1991), Yoruba Songs of Trinidad (1994), Trinidad Yoruba: from Mother Tongue to Memory (1996, 1997), and Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures (2003), Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian due out in 2007

Abstract: Song as Evocation of Communal Memory