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Many Afro-Guyanese people living in villages had migrated to the towns in search of work. [9] Until the 1930s, Afro-Guyanese people, especially those of mixed descent, comprised the bulk of the non-white professional class. [9] During the 1930s, as Indo-Guyanese began to enter the middle class in large numbers, they began to compete with Afro ...
Within the West Indies context, the word is used only for one type of mixed race people: Afro-Indians. [2] The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [3]
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Nicole Narain, Playboy model, has an Afro-Guyanese mother and her father, who is of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Chinese-Guyanese descent; Trevor Phillips, British politician; CCH Pounder, Guyanese-born American actress; Joy Reid, American news correspondent for MSNBC, Afro-Guyanese mother; Rihanna, Barbados-born singer/billionaire, Afro-Guyanese mother
This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana , notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Sophia is a ward of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. It's a predominantly Afro-Guyanese community, [2] and one of Georgetown's poorest neighborhoods. [3] Sophia was where Forbes Burnham presented "Declaration of Sophia" at a People's National Congress meet in December 1974. [4] It outlined the plan for nationalization as a part of a ...
Afro-French Guianans or Black French Guianans are French Guianan people who are of African descent. As of 2003, people of African descent (including those of mixed African and European ancestry) are the majority ethnic group in French Guiana accounting for around 66% of the territory's population.