RoguesCulture Launches The Manifesto Podcast — A new multimedia platform examining how histories of slavery and empire continue to shape the modern world
-- BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS — RoguesCulture, a multimedia platform for narrative, research, and cultural inquiry, announces the launch of The Manifesto podcast — a narrative series exploring identity, colonial legacy, and belonging across the Caribbean and its global diaspora.
RoguesCulture is a multimedia platform for narrative, research, and cultural inquiry exploring how Britain’s system of slavery — and the slave codes that sustained it — were forged in Barbados and became the model for early Atlantic colonies, and how that history continues to shape identity, belonging, and power today.
The podcast is inspired by Rogues in Paradise: In Empire’s Shadow, an unpublished narrative nonfiction work by Ian R. Clayton that traces this history through lived experience rather than official record.
“This is history told from the inside out,” Clayton says. “Not as a sequence of events, but as lived experience — the voices of people who built a culture in spite of systems designed to erase them.”
The Manifesto: Story as Inquiry
The Manifesto podcast brings these histories into the present, combining narrative storytelling with research and cultural analysis. The series foregrounds voices often excluded from official accounts — labourers, rebels, spiritual figures, and everyday people whose lives shaped the Caribbean experience.
See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBeQ_WfRv3Y
Rather than treating history as settled, the podcast approaches it as an ongoing inquiry, connecting the legacies of slavery and empire to contemporary global conversations around reparations, climate vulnerability, and economic justice, reflected in efforts such as the Bridgetown Initiative.
A 300-Year Lens on the Present
While rooted in Barbados, RoguesCulture extends beyond the island, examining how histories of empire continue to shape identity and belonging across the Caribbean diaspora — in Britain, Canada, Europe, and the United States.
The unpublished manuscript Rogues in Paradise serves as the project’s narrative foundation, informing the podcast’s themes, perspective, and the wider platform.
About the Creator
Ian R. Clayton is a Trinidad-born author, cultural historian, and digital pioneer with more than three decades of engagement with Barbadian culture. He founded Barbados.org, later featured in The New York Times, and created the Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia in 1995. RoguesCulture represents the evolution of that work — from cultural documentation to narrative history and inquiry.
About RoguesCulture
RoguesCulture is a multimedia platform — spanning podcast, video, and written narrative — inspired by Rogues in Paradise, and dedicated to exploring the colonial legacy, race, identity, and belonging across the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Explore the platform and pre-screening download
https://roguesinparadise.com/downloadrogues-samplechapters/
Contact Info:
Name: Ian R Clayton
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Address: 211 Kennedys Road 211 Kenedy Rd, Boutiliers Point, NS B3Z 1V5, Canada
Website: https://roguesinparadise.com
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