Even at nearly 90 years old, Guyanese Pan-Africanist and political activist Eusi Kwayana remembers what it was like visiting Freetown, Sierra Leone, shortly after it achieved independence in 1965. He writes: When I arrived, I didnt know anyone and only had a reference from a UN representative who had urged me like so many others to visit his country and explain Guyanas political situation, which they all had known only from the standpoint of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and the People’s Progressive Party. They wanted me to explain to their government the political situation in Guyana, where the ethnic issues between Africans and Indians were drowned out by Cold War compulsions that were masked as ideology. At the time, Guyanas tortured internal affairs had often been discussed in the UN special committee. There was racial violence, and Guyanas Africans were being misrepresented in favor of Indians who were led by a professing Marxist (Jagan) I had once supported. Later on, I wrote a book about the issue called Guyana: No Guilty Race. Read the rest here: https://face2faceafrica/article/sierra-leone-independence-history
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:00:05 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015