This Was Waaaan Great Man! Gyanan Eh. Pity! More

I have to go back again and again. everyday I realize: the world realizes: how great a scholar Van Sertima was..scholar and human being.

the van in his name van Sertima indicate some Dutch bloodline ?

that separate him from say, Burnham ..........Ghana bloodline ?

I always have to come back to him. he was was wat they call the great ones who do work that is basic...PROFOUND

Dutch..Dutch but I dont know about differentiating bloodlines. dat is the opposite of wat he was about. he would tell you dat all humans trace back to Mitochondrial Eve

hahahahahaha

This next great Guyanan was Van Sertima's padnah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carter

Quote:Martin Carter was born in Georgetown in what was then British Guiana (now Guyana) to Victor Emmanuel and Violet Eugene Carter (née Wylde) on 7 June 1927.[9] He was one of seven siblings. From 1938 to 1947 he attended Queen's College school, in Georgetown.[10] On leaving Queen's College, Carter decided not to go to university and, instead, joined the civil service where he worked for the Post Office and then for the Prison Service.[11][12] 1948 saw the first publication of Carter's poetry, when a "fragment" of his poem "An Ode to Midnight" was printed in A. J. Seymour's literary journal Kyk-Over-Al.[13] In 1950 Carter became one of the founding members of the socialist and anti-colonial People's Progressive Party (PPP), led by Cheddi Jagan.[9] [14] He published his second poem, "The Indian Woman", in the same year, in the PPP journal Thunder (under the pseudonym M. Black).[15] Carter married Phyllis Howard in 1953, and their first child, Keith, was born later that year. [16]

In 1953, Carter left the civil service and stood for the PPP in the first universal suffrage elections in British Guiana.[8] He was not elected, but the PPP won a convincing victory. In October 1953, following the British government's declaration of a State of Emergency in Guyana, Carter was arrested and detained without charge at a US airbase in Timehri on suspicion that he was "spreading dissension", along with Eusi Kwayana and Cheddi Jagan.[17][18][19] While detained, Carter took part in a one-month hunger strike, beginning on 23 November, organised by the detainees as a protest against the injustices of the government and their being held, indefinitely, without charge.[20] Carter remained in prison until January 1954, when he was released under orders not to leave Georgetown.[21] The restriction orders placed upon him lasted until 1957. In May 1954, Poems of Resistance from British Guiana was published in London by the Marxist publishing house Lawrence and Wishart, making Carter one of the first Caribbean poets to be published outside of the Caribbean.[22][21] In June 1954 he was arrested once again for taking part in a PPP procession, and was imprisoned for six months, until December that year. [21] His second child, Sonia, was born shortly after his release.[9]

When disagreement in the PPP led to a split in the party and the founding of a rival party, the People's National Congress (PNC) (under Forbes Burnham) in 1955, Carter chose to remain with the PPP. [21] This would not last long however – just a year later, in 1956, he was expelled from the PPP for being an "ultra-leftist". [21][23] After leaving the PPP, Carter worked for a brief period as an Information Officer in the British Council's Georgetown Office, and then for a longer period (1959–67) as an Information Officer for Booker (a multinational company and owner of Guyana's sugar estates).[23] Following the declaration of Guyana's Independence in May 1966, Carter resigned from Booker and joined the PNC as Minister of Information and Culture in 1967.[24] In 1966–67 he represented Guyana at the United Nations.[7] Concerned about the way in which the PNC government was developing, Carter resigned from this position – and indeed from governmental politics – in November 1970, remarking that he wished to live "simply as a poet, remaining with the people".[25] From 1970 to 1978 he returned to Booker once again, resigning for the last time in 1978 to become a Lecturer in Creative writing and Artist in Residence at the University of Guyana.[26] During this time he wrote Poems of Succession which was published in 1977 by New Beacon Books. In 1978 Carter was badly beaten when he took part in a demonstration against the PNC and their refusal to hold elections.[23] Politically, Carter's sympathy lay with the Working People's Alliance of Eusi Kwayana and Walter Rodney during this time, although he never became a party-member.[14]

In 1992 Carter took part in a Guyanese Writers Tour, in the UK, with Wilson Harris, Fred D'Aguiar and Grace Nichols.[27][1] In 1993 Carter suffered a stroke and lost the ability to walk and talk.[27] He died on 13 December 1997, survived by his wife and their four children. He was buried at the Place of Heroes in the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, an honour that had previously been reserved for Heads of State.[28]

JOHN AGARD

Quote:Agard grew up in British Guiana, (Georgetown). He loved to listen to cricket commentary on the radio and began making up his own, which led to a love of language.[3] He went on to study English, French and Latin at A-level, writing his first poetry when he was in sixth-form, and left school in 1967. He taught the languages he had studied and worked in a local library. He was also a sub-editor and feature writer for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle, publishing two books while he was still in Guyana.[3]

His father settled in London and Agard moved to Britain with his partner Grace Nichols in 1977, settling in Ironbridge, Shropshire.[4][5] He worked for the Commonwealth Institute and the BBC in London.

His awards included the 1997 Paul Hamlyn Award for Poetry,[6] the Cholmondeley Award in 2004 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012.[2]

Agard was Poet-in-Residence at the National Maritime Museum in 2008. His poems "Half Caste" and "Checking Out Me History" have been featured in the AQA English GCSE anthology since 2002, meaning that many students (aged 14–16) have studied his work for their GCSE English qualifications.[7]

He lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with his partner, the Guyanese poet Grace Nichols.[4]