Articles in 'Guyana Independence Issue'

  • The years between 1956 and 1966 have been the most fateful in the history of the relationship between the developed...

  • My assignment is to present "a view of Carib­bean Society" as part of a general survey of the pros­pects ahead....

  • Rajah believed in nothing save filling his belly. Food was the beginning and the end of life. What­ever he had,...

  • FRANZ FANON: MY HOPE AND HERO

    It is impossible to do justice to this remarkable work in the short space I have at my disposal. Fanon's...

  • Marcus Garvcy had heard the independence of the colonies coming on the winds. Of the time of its com­ing he...

  • BLACK MIDAS (Extract)

    A light drizzle was sweeping across the river when we boarded the steamer for Bartica. The rain had been falling...

  • THE DISLOCATED IMAGE

    In Wilson Harris' The Eye of the Scarecrow the diarist-narrator records his reflection on a crowd of strikers: “It was...

  • THE NECESSITY OF POETRY

    Jean-Paul Satre, in his essay 'Orphee Negre", wrote of the negro poet plunging into the dark void, using his instinct...