School corridors lined with jubilant children, infectious smiles and fluttering Guyana flags and not a chance this was for a questionable royal visitor as they made us do when we were children, but for our very own. One of us. Letitia Wright’s visit to Guyana is bound to make any Guyanese feel a sense of national pride and joy, even those who have left the shores for a different path and found themselves adapting a phase 2 edition of nationhood.
As I frantically clicked through the Ministry of Education’s pictures of Wright’s school visits, completely in my feelings, I wondered to myself if this was what Jamaicans felt every time one of their countrymen or women sprinted across a finish line or they heard their music blasting from speakers and in festivals in places far from their homes. What an incredible feeling to constantly have, I wish that I could bottle it.