New Amsterdamer Ivelaw James aka Brooks has released his second book of poetry titled Poems for Cuffy’s Children, which he hopes will ignite Guyanese of African descent to build on the foundation laid by their ancestors.
According to its foreword, the book was produced to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the 1763 Berbice Uprising led by the enslaved Akan Akomfo from Ghana, Kofi Badu aka “Cuffy” – the first national hero of Guyana, to whom the 1763 monument, sculpted by Berbician Phillip Moore,
