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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 ...
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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.
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.
English is the main language, and Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, although many people in neighboring Suriname also speak English. British English is taught in school and used in Government and business. Guyanese creole, a pidgin of 17th-century English, African and Hindi words, is used at home and on the street.
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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 ...