Articles in 'Guyana Independence Issue'

  • KYK-OVER-AL AND THE RADICALS

    by L.E. Braithwaite

    Kyk-over-al is the name of a ruined Dutch fort kyking over all the waters of the Essequibo, Mazaruni and Cayuni....

  • Size and Survival

    by Lloyd Best

    The first serious contribution by a West Indian economist to the general theory of development has recently been published. The...

  • UNIVERSITY OF HUNGER/ ON THE FOURTH NIGHT OF HUNGER STRIKE/ WHAT CAN A MAN DO MORE/ CHILDHOOD OF A VOICE/ WHERE ARE FREE MEN/ AFTER ONE YEAR/ YOU ARE INVOLVED/ BLACK FRIDAY 1862/ ANONYNMOUS

    by Martin Carter

    UNIVERSITY OF HUNGER Is the university of hunger the wide waste, Is the pilgrimage of man the long march. The...

  •  BALLAD OF MY TWO GRANDFATHERS/ BALLAD OF THE RIVER SPIRITS

    by Nicolas Guillen

    BALLAD OF MY TWO GRANDFATHERS Shadows that only I can see My two grandfathers go with me.   Lance with...

  • PIONEERS IN AMERICAN FREEDOM

    by John Clarke

    West Indians have been coming to the United States for over a century. The part they have played in the...

  • ELEGY

    by Nicolas Guillen

    Over the sea came the pirate messenger of the Devil, with his steady fixed stare and his monotonous wooden leg....

  • A SWARTHY BOY: An Extract

    by Edgar Mittelholzer

    Despite the darkness of the rafters and the dis­cipline of my mother and aunts and grandmother, I cannot say I...

  • Prospects Before Us

    by W.B. Yeates

    Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon...