Eusi Kwayana had an active role in Guyana’s politics for many decades, beginning in the colonial period of the 1940s, and continuing until he retired to California a few years ago. He was the Minister of Communication and Works in the short-lived PPP government of 1953, and was detained following the suspension of the constitution that year. He was later to become a member of the PNC, which he left, and later still, one of the leaders of the WPA working closely with Walter Rodney. He returned briefly to Guyana in 2014, and gave evidence to the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry. He wrote the lyrics for the party songs of all three political parties with which he was associated at one point or another. He was also the founder of the African Society for Racial Equality, and then the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa – ASCRIA. In this year of Guyana’s 50th anniversary of Independence Stabroek News requested an interview with him, which was conducted via email with Gaulbert Sutherland on May 24, 2016.
