–Young entrepreneurs push Yogasthenics and Wrap Century   FOR Sa-Ra Yawoada and Nise-Akuosua Oduyefo, embracing their African culture plays a paramount role in their lives. It is this lifestyle,

  By Eric Phillips EMANCIPATION was the term used for the abolishment of slavery resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which lasted from the 16th to 19th Centuries. Captured

By Francis Quamina Farrier   YOU will have obviously noted the twin dovetail in my headline, “First of August” and “August Monday”, because, in one way or the other, the

EVERY year, without fail, the African Cultural Development Association (ACDA) sets the tone to the format the year’s Emancipation celebrations will take, particularly in terms of what African country

  PAPA Wemba is such an important figure in Congolese music that it is nearly impossible to compete with him. Regardless of the popular hits and artists of the moment,

–on the Guyanese society By Ravena Gildharie LESS than five years since Guyana and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) committed to reparations for slavery, much has been done to build

–Talking Sapologie late night in North London   By Eugenio Giorgianni   IT’S half past midnight at a North London community centre, and a group of men in flashy

–as Guyana celebrates yet another Emancipation Day   THE Village of Union, at Number 53, Corentyne last evening came alive like never before to the beat of the Conga

AFTER months of planning, the time had finally come, and O’Neil Augustus Fitzgerald LaGoudoue, son of Augustus O’Neil LaGoudoue, his two brothers and a cousin, set sail from French

–on the subject of Emancipation IT’s been 179 long years now, so one cannot help but wonder, given what is happening in the world today, particularly among Peoples of