In The Diaspora

Authors: Anil Persaud (persaudk@gmail.com) and Aryama (aryama@hotmail.com) were trained in history and political science, respectively, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Authors: Anil Persaud (persaudk@gmail.com) and Aryama (aryama@hotmail.com) were trained in history and political science, respectively, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an international lawyer, attorney-at-law in Guyana, and the recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Lawyers Association Lexis Nexis Rule of Law Award 2023. 

Pandit Lakshman Prasad (1859-1949), Indentured Immigrant 1898, and the Founding of the Arya Samaj Movement in Guyana (then British Guiana) By Harry Hergash Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.

By Linden Lewis Linden F. Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.

By Myrtha Désulmé Myrtha Désulmé was born in Haiti, and raised in France and Jamaica, where she now resides.

By Anya A. A. Lorde Anya A. A. Lorde is an Attorney-at-Law called to the Bar to practice in Barbados since October 2016.

By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A shorter version of this column, titled ‘Will We Hasten Slowly?’

By Honor Ford-Smith Honor Ford-Smith is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.

Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

By Esther Figueroa Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.

Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana.  He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley and, until recently was Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.  I refuse to fall into the “race” trap of Guyanese politics because of the devastation it has wrought in every aspect of the country’s institutional order and in the understandings, values, and attitudes of the people. 

By Maggie Schmeitz Maggie Schmeitz is a Cultural Anthropologist and Women’s and Children’s Rights Activist.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon  Vidyaratha Kissoon lives and works in Guyana. This article evolved from one of his blogs at https://churchroadman.blogspot.com  Saturday afternoon of the festival  Castellani House was the main venue for the Guyana Prize Literary Festival which was held from Friday 10 February, 2023 to 12 February, 2023.

By Charisse Burden-Stelly Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne State University and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research & Political Education Team.

(20 February 1942-29 January 2023) By Richard Drayton Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London “Well he lost his memory/ what a thing to stand up and see/ how it is he forget to remember/ what it is he forget remembering” So the Mighty Spoiler, calypso surrealist, conjectured in “Lost Memories” (1960) how repression could be forgotten. 

By Lear Matthews PART  2 Lear Matthews is Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By Anil Persaud Trained as a historian, Anil Persaud is an independent researcher.

A Plea from a Creole Guyanese Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana.