A people’s identity

–    A nation’s pride
Today, every Guyanese should celebrate Emancipation Day, not only as a day when a people was freed from bondage; but also because that day heralded a covenant of statehood through a movement that eventuated into a beauteous rainbow of nationhood that is the Guyanese people.
All Guyanese people of African descent, during this year dedicated to them, while taking cognizance of the importance of strengthening their racial identity and embracing their cultural roots, need also to recognize their essential unique contribution – peculiar only to their racial and cultural characteristics, to the resplendently beautiful interweave that adds to the lustrous and illustrious dynamics of our social and cultural topography in Guyana’s mosaic of nationhood. (PPE)