In The Diaspora

Alissa Trotz is the editor of the Diaspora Column. A recent Diaspora Column by Dr.

Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.

By Danielle Toppin In her work with Sistren Theatre Collective of Jamaica, Danielle Toppin focuses on mainstreaming gender into the composition of the grassroots organizations’ work, as well as on designing and facilitating workshops on gender, culture and identity.

Adele Perry is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History at the University of Manitoba. 

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.

As an Ethiopian who spent the better part of my youth in Guyana, this article is written in the spirit of international solidarity articulated by the likes of Walter Rodney and other members of the Dar es Salaam school.

By Linden Lewis Linden Lewis is a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.

Arif Bulkan teaches human rights law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

By Raymond Ramcharitar Raymond Ramcharitar is a Trinidadian journalist. He has written about art and culture for 20 years.

Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

By Kevin de Silva Kevin De Silva is a second generation Guyanese-Canadian, and a student of Political Science and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto.

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Toronto.

By Alissa TrotzAlissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora Column We have just commemorated the third anniversary of the brutal and inhuman assault on the village of Lusignan that ended with the slaughter of eleven persons, five of them children.

Melanie Newton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, CanadaBy Melanie Newton … he governed as if he felt predestined to never die… Gabriel García Marquéz, The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1975A week ago, Haitians the world over were stunned when former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years of comfortable political asylum in France.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column In their descriptions of Georgetown, older Guyanese in particular talk about the negative stereotypes associated with living or coming from the area known as ‘south of the burial ground’.

Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti, is a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author most recently of “The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Inter-national Community, and Haiti.” 

By Cary Fraser Cary Fraser is a regular contributor to the Trinidad and Tobago Review and writes on international relations in the Middle East, American foreign policy, and Caribbean history.

By Iman Khan Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

By Iman Khan Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

By Norman Girvan and Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is editor of the Diaspora column.