APNU official and WPA executive Dr David Hinds has urged Corriverton residents of African heritage to be proud of their heritage and to use education and civic engagement to ensure successful futures.
Dr Hinds made this statement during his address at the community’s annual Emancipation Observances, a press release from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said. In his reflection on the character and dignity of enslaved Africans who survived and overcame slavery, Dr Hinds said, “Slavery was not just about brutality and dehumanization of the African. But equally important, it was about resistance, survival and ultimately overcoming that brutality and dehumanization. Our foreparents’ gift to us was that resilience in the face of the greatest odds. And we must cherish that for all times.” As such, he urged the gathering to let the sacrifices of their forbears resonate in their daily lives.
He also referred to the purchase of villages which he described as “a revolution that lay the basis for a modern Guyana and it represents the