The Department of Culture presents a profile on Mr Edgar Challenger.
When Edgar Challenger returned to St. Kitts at age nineteen, from Lodge School in Barbados, he worked for a short time in the family business before going to Canada to pursue a commercial education Designed to equip him to carry on the family business. When he returned howeve,r he left again, this time for City College, New York, with College credits in Science and Mathematics, to work towards a degree in Biology.
It was at this point in his life that Edgar Challenger faced his moment of truth. As Thomas Manchester had done in Canada and as Doc Davis had done in the New York Taxi Service, Edgar Challenger soon discovered that he was a Negro, of African descent, in spite of his fair complexion and his upbringing in the narrow environment of the Kittitians aristocracy and cloistered atmosphere of Lodge School.
There is something strange about truth. It is often not difficult to find. Most of the time it is even quite obvious, and yet, when it dawns upon the seeker, it does so with an overpowering flash of light which leaves the beholder dazzled in its brilliance.
That was how it was with Edgar Challenger. In the twenty-three years his life, he knew in his spirit that he was not white, his mother's attitudes and teachings notwithstanding; but he had spent all these years wondering what he really was, searching for his identity. Then like a flash of light, truth struck him, and he knew that he was, indeed, a Caribbean-African.
In his daze, he asked the College to allow him to do a course of study in the history of the Caribbean and, when he found that no such course was available; he dropped his studies and visited the libraries, bought old books, copied material and tried to discover all he could about the Caribbean people. To support himself he took a job with a firm of Brooklyn Flourist used this opportunity to become a student of horticulture.
In the meantime fell in love With a Black women, as beautiful in his Lucretia; his ancestor. She was a dancer, a creature of the most exquisite proportions, as irresistible as the vision of Africa his imagination. "A so ee go." | 
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