A market area in Brixton, an area of south London that is multi-ethnic, with a large percentage of the population of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. Brixton Market is a combination of a street market and adjacent covered market areas, and is well known for its African and Caribbean produce and other goods. James Berry uses the market as the setting for his poem "In-a Brixtan Markit" (1995), which is written in Jamaican Patois and recounts a Jamaican man being stopped by police upon arriving at the market.
I walk in-a Brixtan Market
believin I a respectable man,
you know. An wha happn?
Policeman come straight up
an search mi bag! (1-5)
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