Jane Bryce was born and brought up in Tanzania, and lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, before moving to Barbados to teach at the University of the West Indies in 1992. There she taught African literature and cinema and creative writing and was for twenty years editor of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing. She is an active member of the Caribbean literary community as reviewer, editor and judge of literary competitions locally and regionally. She has published widely as a literary and cultural critic and her short stories have appeared internationally. She compiled and edited the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan UK: 2006) and is author of Chameleon and other stories (Peepal Tree Press, 2007). She has recently completed a memoir, Zamani: a Haunted Memoir of Tanzania.
Jane Bryce
Reviews

Abolition
A slave ship in full sail sits firmly in the centre of Gabriel Gbadamosi's play
6th December 2023
Original Series

Snapshots taken along the way
Writer and academic Jane Bryce on the space where Carbbean and African literatures exist in a cultural continuum.
11th March 2022
Reviews

The Mermaid of Black Conch
The tale of a thousand-year-old mermaid doomed by an ancient curse to swim the Caribbean for ever
1st September 2021

Jane Bryce
Jane Bryce is a teacher of African literature and cinema and creative writing.







