In The Diaspora

By Linden Lewis Linden F. Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.

By Myrtha Désulmé Myrtha Désulmé was born in Haiti, and raised in France and Jamaica, where she now resides.

By Anya A. A. Lorde Anya A. A. Lorde is an Attorney-at-Law called to the Bar to practice in Barbados since October 2016.

By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A shorter version of this column, titled ‘Will We Hasten Slowly?’

By Honor Ford-Smith Honor Ford-Smith is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.

Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

By Esther Figueroa Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.

Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana.  He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley and, until recently was Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.

By Maggie Schmeitz Maggie Schmeitz is a Cultural Anthropologist and Women’s and Children’s Rights Activist.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon  Vidyaratha Kissoon lives and works in Guyana. This article evolved from one of his blogs at https://churchroadman.blogspot.com

By Charisse Burden-Stelly Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne State University and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research & Political Education Team.

(20 February 1942-29 January 2023) By Richard Drayton Richard Drayton, born in Guyana and also a citizen of Barbados, is a Professor of Imperial and  Global History at King’s College London “Well he lost his memory/ what a thing to stand up and see/ how it is he forget to remember/ what it is he forget remembering” So the Mighty Spoiler, calypso surrealist, conjectured in “Lost Memories” (1960) how repression could be forgotten. 

By Lear Matthews PART  2 Lear Matthews is Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

By Anil Persaud Trained as a historian, Anil Persaud is an independent researcher.

A Plea from a Creole Guyanese Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana. 

By Danuta Radzik, Vanda Radzik and Raphael Singh All three authors are Guyanese born and resident Guyanese citizens.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon Vidyaratha Kissoon lives and works in Guyana. He witnessed men and women talk about the ‘nice’ man who killed his wife and the other men who wanted to slap up an older woman.

By Percy C. Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is a native of Guyana. 

by Vidyaratha Kissoon (Vidyaratha Kissoon lives in Guyana. He realised that beating children was wrong after doing anti-violence work with Help & Shelter and other organisations and individuals who recognised that we need to stop beating children as a cultural practice if we want to end gender based and other forms of violence) Consultation “She used to come in de class, beat everybody..