Albert Williams, (44) was born in Emsworth, England in 1962 At the age of ten, the migrated to the Commonwealth of Dominica in the West Indies where he would live for the next 32 years. He returned to the UK, in October 2004 and currently resides in Bognor Regis.

He is a talented individual who in his time has show keen interest in many areas of the fine arts. Besides having written and self-published three booklets of poetry namely: Honourable Natty Dread, (1982,1990&1996); One Dominica-Odes for I Beloved, (1985) and Through The Far Eye (1997), he produced and presented a one-hour, literary radio program which was aired on the Dominican, FM radio station, Kairi FM on Sunday's for the Dominica Writer's Guild of which he is founder member. In 1982, Albert was also one of several young persons who the Frontline Cooperative Bookstore, which is affiliated to Frontline U.K

 He has also worked with organisations such as the Movement for Cultural Awareness (M.C.A.); the Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated (EWF Inc.); the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica's, Division of Culture; the Black History Awareness Committee (B.H.A.C) and the Roseau Public Library, with which he has organized dozens of public readings, book festivals, African liberations marches and Bob Marley Awareness Days. He has also been called upon to facilitate workshops in creative writing and is also noted as an excellent performance poet

Between, 1981 and 2002, Williams' bye-line has appeared in all of the local periodicals in Dominica: The Chronicle, The Tropical Star, the independent, The Voice of the People and The Sun as free-lance contributor and columnist of scores of articles, short stories poems and other features. From June 2002 to March 2004 upon receiving a diploma in journalism/Short Story Writing from Harcourt Learning Direct, a correspondence school, he was invited to join the Dominica's oldest and most read newspaper: The Chronicle as a full-time reporter and photographer. His duties included reporting on incidents, events and personalities as they occurred for publication. In addition, the writing and rewriting of articles and features, as well as the proofreading of pages. While at the newspaper, Albert joined the Media Workers Association of Dominica (MWAD), and served as its secretary for a few months.   At the moment he is pursuing a correspondence course in still and video Photography (digital and film) with the New York Institute of Photography.

RATIONAL: For over 400, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean have shared a common history that begun during the years of slavery and continued during the postcolonial period. Despite many of the former colonies obtaining their independence, and becoming members of the commonwealth, relations with the mother country continues with large-scale immigration between the two regions.