The name Guiana was given by Carib and Arawak tribes who inhabited the region before the arrival of Europeans. In the late 16th century, the Dutch settled in Guyana, but their power ended in 1796 when the British ruled the region. The country gained its independence in May 1966 and on ...
The poet, John Agard, grew up in Guyana when it was still a British colony, and the poem's dialect (its use of words like "dem" in place of "them," "wha" for "what," etc.) is Caribbean creole. As such, it's reasonable to assume that this "dem" refers to the British ...
(Placename) the former British possessions of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar, before their independence in the 1960s Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
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I wonder if the discovery of Guyanese Oil and the threat of invasion from Venezuela might lead to Guyana seeking either Dependency Status or Integration. Guyana gets Security and UK gets the Oil. Then British Guyana-French Guyana Personally what I would find hilarious is if Sierra Leone actual...
Addis Ababa. Clergy were imported from Africa and a fully canonical church was organised in the islands. Trinidad is an Ethiopian Orthodox success story: native-born clergy (including old-time Garveyite leaders) were rapidly ordained and parishes were founded all over the country and in Guyana....
Jamaica's ethnic distinctions are not as large as those of Trinidad, Guyana, or the United States, but Jamaicans are rich in cultural traditions and ethnic diversity. Although the population is predominantly black, small enclaves of East Indians, Chinese, Lebanese, Europeans, Jews, and other eth...
Cultivating resilience though community support appears to be more important than ever. As a school nurse in Brooklyn, Marilyn Howard, who immigrated from Guyana as a teenager, worked through the early weeks of March until the public schools closed. She got sick the day after she left work....
These increases are the result of significant inflows of migrants from Guyana, Dominica, and the Dominican Republic. Migrants from the latter have given rise to a small Spanish-speaking community on Antigua. Linguistic Affiliation. Given the creole nature of its culture, it is not surprising ...