Political Activist Remembers African Determination & Faith in Guyana During Early 1900s

  Chattel slavery — but not forced labor — ended in Guyana in 1834. Four years later, apprenticeship, with its compulsory labor for everyone over the age of 6, also ended....

Pan-Africanist, Activist Remembers Pre-War Liberia in 1965

Today, Liberia is going through the extreme agonies of the Ebola disease and losing dozens of citizens, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman head of state in Africa in modern times,...

Political Activist Offers Snapshot of African Experience During Guyana’s Slavery Period

The cotton mills in Great Britain were hungry for raw materials so that the owners could multiply their profits and  expand. This would be possible with cheap labour and most possible with forced...

Guyanese Pan-Africanist, Activist Remembers 1960s Sierra Leone

Before entering a country, I read up on everything I can find about it in libraries and in the popular press. There was a very lively publication called “Jeune Afrique,”which was very informative....

Bless Us, Mothers, As We Falter

Young girls are the only promise of an Earth’s future as we know it of a human voluntary Mothers’ pool the most precious pool planet-wide May 9th at 2 a.m. I had no verse for Mother’s...

Pan-Africanist, Activist Remembers Religious Tolerance in Ghana

The builders of reborn Ghana wanted the country not only to prosper but to be a beacon to the whole continent. By the time I got there eight years after the regaining of independence, the place was buzzing,...