GHK Lall confronts spectre of race in new book

Author GHK Lall (right) autographing a copy of his new book, Sitting on a racial volcano (Guyana Uncensored) for Georgetown Public Hospital CEO Michael Khan on Friday. (Photo by Arian Browne)

“The problem of race is the most obscure of all and Lall has opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box, not just by cracking it open, but by ripping the cover off altogether,” Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman said on Friday at the launching of writer GHK Lall’s Sitting on a Racial Volcano (Guyana Uncensored).

The book launch was held at the Marian Academy on Carifesta Avenue last evening.

The book, Trotman said, has inconvenient truths and we must face up to them. “People of Guyana sit on top of a known,