Archie Lindo (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a

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n photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster.''The Daily Gleaner''
4 April 1990. He was one of the most successful Jamaican playwrights of the 1940s. His photographs are part of the

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collection. He received the Silver

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from the Institute of Jamaica as well as an

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from the government. He was also an art critic for ''The Star'' from 1960. Lindo was a member of the Poetry League of Jamaica and was a columnist for ''

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''. Left in charge of Jamaica's only radio station at the time, ZQI, he broadcast local programming including

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and the

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. The radio station was succeeded by RJR.

Bibliography

*''Under the Skin'', a play *''The Maroon'', a play

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