Anil Persaud

Roundabout

[in process.] Roundabouts appear before flyovers do. How to enter, how to exit, how to avoid going around in circles: roundabouts are tricky to navigate. At first they aren’t for everyone. They take some getting accustomed to. With two new roundabouts recently constructed in Georgetown, Guyana is in the early days of its roundabout phase, […]

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May I

Sunday mornings are typically quiet. After a noisy Saturday night, Sunday mornings in Campbellville are very easy on the ears. Folks would either be sleeping in or praying. Even kids, up and about, know enough to be as quiet as a mouse. Across sleeping policemen sprawling dogs lie. It is as if, on Sunday mornings,

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Ethiopia Revisited

Thanks to the Rastafari, Ethiopia is an inexpungable part of what we still refer to as the West Indies. Ethiopia has strengthened our soul, raised our heads high, shaped our identities, imprinted itself in the ways we love, dance, walk, talk and dress. When Walter Rodney greeted us with I man Irie, I man dread,

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