In his critique of colonialism in Africa, the Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney states:

* March 23 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney ( 1972 ) has argued that it was an unequal relationship, with Africans being forced into a " colonial " trade with the more economically developed Europeans, exchanging raw materials and human resources ( i. e. slaves ) for manufactured goods.

Walter Rodney ( March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980 ) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.

* Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian of Africa and author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

* Walter Rodney ( 1942 – 1980 ), Guyanese historian and politician

* Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and politician

The influential intellectual and historian Walter Rodney was Guyanese, his most important book being How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ( 1972 ).

* Basdeo Mangru, Guyanese historian ; current faculty of City University of New York, York

In 1993, the Guyanese government posthumously awarded Walter Rodney Guyana's highest honour, the Order of Excellence of Guyana.

The Guyanese government also established a Walter Rodney Chair in History at the University of Guyana.

The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.

* 1982 – Walter Rodney for A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905

He also maintains that some of the Africans taken as slaves to the New World already spoke Guinea Coast Creole English in Africa, and that their creole speech influenced the development of creole languages spoken today on the American side of the Atlantic such as Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Belizean Kriol, Guyanese Creole, Sranan Tongo in Suriname, etc.

Although the beginning of theatre in 19th century Georgetown was European, in the early 20th century a new African and Indian Guyanese middle-class theatre emerged.

His works often deal with issues of interracial relations, particularly the strain between European and non-European Guyanese.

In 2011, Wikileaks published a few cables in which the American embassy confirmed Bouterse's involvement, together with that of top Guyanese criminal Roger Khan, in the drugs trade.

South Miami Heights ' Colombian community had the sixty-first highest percentage of residents, which was at 2. 38 % ( tied with Palisades Park, New Jersey ,) while the Guyanese community had the thirteenth highest percentage in the US, which made up 1. 10 % ( tied with five other US areas.

He is one of a group of highly successful Guyanese people in Britain ( Michael White of The Guardian refers to them as the " Guyanese mafia "), which includes Raj Persaud, Herman Ouseley and David Dabydeen, Cynthia Pine, Keith Waithe and Rudolph Dunbar.

She strongly believed that Guyanese children needed books which reflected their own realities.

She often addressed political issues, like the socialist policies which was perceived as oppression of the Indian community because of the restriction of flour and dall ( splitpeas ) by Forbes Burnham's of the People's National Congressin reality these policies were hard against all Guyanese.

Guyanese remembered listening to the live broadcast on the radio, describing it as an inspiring, yet somber speech which gushed from his mountain of anguish and deep affliction.

Thousands of people summon to the streets to participate in the annual Mashramani celebrations, which has been a part of Guyanese culture for over 50 years.

Nieuw Nickerie lies on the mouth of the Nickerie river on the Atlantic coast, opposite the mouth of the Corantijn river ( Courantyne ) and the Guyanese town of Corriverton ( Springlands ), to which a ferry service operates.

When the seeds turn black, the pork, which has already been cut into small pieces, washed with lemon and seasoned with bandanya ( related to cilantro, the herb is also known as culantro ( Spanish / English ), chadon beni ( Trinidadian ), pak chi farang ( Thai ), ngo gai ( Vietnamese ), recao ( Spanish ), and fitweed ( Guyanese )), is placed in the pot and fried for a few minutes.

The riots began on August 19, 1991 after Gavin Cato, the son of two Guyanese immigrants, was accidentally struck and killed by an automobile in the motorcade of prominent Hasidic rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

The riots began on August 19, 1991, after the child of Guyanese immigrants was accidentally struck and killed by an automobile in the motorcade of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

The first half of the 20th century saw a number of popular Guyanese dance bands, including the BG Musicians Band, Harry Banks Orchestra, Al Seales & His Washboard Swing Orchestra, Bert Rogers & His Aristocrats Dance Orchestra and Mr. Gouveia's Orchestra.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Guyanese police work closely to help with drug, and human smuggling.

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

Their claim is based on the idea that Guyana has strong connections with the United States in terms of people ( 100, 000 people have joint Guyanese American citizenship and 350, 000 Guyanese live in the U. S., half as many as remain in Guyana ).

Soon after, Jagan appeared on the same platform with Prime Minister Burnham at the celebration of ten years of Guyanese independence, on May 26, 1976.

While Queens and Brooklyn had larger populations in terms of raw numbers, Orange ( with 2. 9 %) and East Orange had the highest percentage of people of Guyanese ancestry of all places in the United States with at least 1, 000 people identifying their ancestry.

While Queens and Brooklyn had larger populations in terms of raw numbers, Orange and East Orange ( with 2. 5 %) had the highest percentages of people of Guyanese ancestry as a portion of the total population of all places in the United States.

* Guyanese Wicket-If using a wicketkeeper, the wicketkeeper can attempt to tip the wicket over with his foot or hand, giving the impression of the batsmen hitting the wicket.

Later, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham stated that what may have attracted Jones was that " he wanted to use cooperatives as the basis for the establishment of socialism, and maybe his idea of setting up a commune meshed with that.

In 1974, after Jones and Temple members traveled to an area of Northwest Guyana with Guyanese officials, the Temple and Guyanese officials negotiated a lease of over 3, 800 acres ( 15. 4 km² ) of jungle land from the Guyanese government.

The site was isolated, with soil of poor fertility, even by Guyanese standards.

The Temple established offices in Georgetown and conducted numerous meetings with Burnham and other Guyanese officials.

Jones was found dead in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head that Guyanese coroner Cyrill Mootoo stated was consistent with a self-inflicted gun wound.

Stephan, Jim Jr., and Tim Jones did not take part in the mass suicide because they were playing with the Peoples Temple basketball team against the Guyanese national team in Georgetown.

Guyanese culture shares many commonalities with the cultures of islands in the West Indies, particularly in the coastal regions of the country ( where the majority of the population is concentrated ).