In this episode I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for a celebration, It was Baba Eusi's 98th birthday. Friends, family, former students and many others who walked with him in the struggle gathered to pay homage to one of Guyana's greatest treasures. These are their testimonies.
Eusi Kwayana, formerly Sydney King (born April 4 1925) in Lusignan, Guyana. A cabinet minister in the People's Progressive Party (PPP) government of 1953. Later he left the PPP to form ASCRIA (African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa), a Pan-Africanist grassroots political group that, after a brief time with the People's National Congress (PNC) of Forbes Burnham, fused into the Working People's Alliance (WPA).
In 1956 he founded and became principal of County High School, later renamed Republic Cooperative High School, in Buxton, Guyana.
Kwayana met his wife Tchaiko Kwayana (formerly Ann Cook), a Pan-Africanist, and civil rights activist from Georgia, in 1968. She made her transition in 2017.
Baba Eusi is a Playwright, poet, author, educator, political songwriter and grassroots organizer.
A special thanks to Elder Kadumu Moyenda for the opening libation and Elder Yiriba for the drumming on my introduction.