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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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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.
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
Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...
The following list of Guyanese artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Guyana, of Guyanese descent or who produce works that are primarily about Guyana.
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.