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Afro-Guyanese, also known as Black Guyanese, are generally descended from the enslaved African people brought to Guyana from the coast of West Africa to work on sugar plantations during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Coming from a wide array of backgrounds and enduring conditions that severely constrained their ability to preserve their ...
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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.
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.
Leona Lewis, singer and the first winner of "The X Factor" (series 3), Guyanese father; Jermain Jackman, singer and "The Voice UK" (2015) winner; Derek Luke, American actor; Maestro, Canadian rapper and actor; Nicole Narain, Playboy model, has an Afro-Guyanese mother and her father, who is of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Chinese-Guyanese descent
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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.