Guyana..And the Very Great Van Sertima

the longer I live the greater the persona of Ivan Van Sertima assumes in my mind. and it is the same in academia all around the world..a great human being indeed. just take a look at how great a scholar he was.

the man died at 75...waaaaaay too young. man shud be alive all now. he wud have been in his mid to late eighties. he would have been our father, the solid, unifying west indian figure.

this man makes feel full..like we have arrived at a major point of evolution, of achievement that shows the way to the future.

And this is the the very way I have heard all the scholars who knew him speak of him. with quiet reverence as a very great man indeed

Dr Jan Carew..another great west indian. we don't know about these people but we shud. our children should be walking around with these people as guide in their minds..the work they did shud underpin their education.

our children shud be seeing these people lecture if only by film. to get a sense of them, their personalities, their minds and spirit

these people were magnificent, true soldiers



Dr Jan Carew

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

Quote:Jan Rynveld Carew (24 September 1920 – 6 December 2012)[1] was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, England, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States. His works, diverse in form and multifaceted, make Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world. His poetry and his first two novels, Black Midas and The Wild Coast (both published in 1958 by Secker & Warburg in London), were significant landmarks of the West Indian literature then attempting to cope with its colonial past and assert its wish for autonomy. He worked with the late President Cheddi Jagan in the fight for Guianese independence.[2] Carew also played an important part in the Black movement gaining strength in England and North America, publishing reviews and newspapers, producing programs and plays for the radio and the television. His scholarly research drove him to question traditional historiographies and the prevailing historical models of the conquest of America. The way he reframed Christopher Columbus as an historical character outside his mythical hagiography became a necessary path in his mind to build anew the Caribbean world on sounder foundations.

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

Quote:Jan Rynveld Carew (24 September 1920 – 6 December 2012)[1] was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, England, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States. His works, diverse in form and multifaceted, make Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world. His poetry and his first two novels, Black Midas and The Wild Coast (both published in 1958 by Secker & Warburg in London), were significant landmarks of the West Indian literature then attempting to cope with its colonial past and assert its wish for autonomy. He worked with the late President Cheddi Jagan in the fight for Guianese independence.[2] Carew also played an important part in the Black movement gaining strength in England and North America, publishing reviews and newspapers, producing programs and plays for the radio and the television. His scholarly research drove him to question traditional historiographies and the prevailing historical models of the conquest of America. The way he reframed Christopher Columbus as an historical character outside his mythical hagiography became a necessary path in his mind to build anew the Caribbean world on sounder foundations.

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