By Dr. Kwame Nantambu June 14, 2021 Years after the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2011 as “The International Year for People of African Descent”, it must be realized that the European enslavement of African people or the “MAAFA” (“great disaster”) only represents .01 per cent of the history of African people on this planet. … Continue reading Getting world history right: real African history
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 07, 2021 “Get the niggers,” was their slogan, / “Kill them, burn them, set the pace. / Let them know that we are white men, / Teach them how to keep their place.” —A. J. Smitherman, “The Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre” (1922) I had just left Harvard University … Continue reading White Brutality Against Black and Brown People
PM Rowley tests positive for COVID-19 The diagnosis comes mere hours before the PM was set to receive his first COVID-19 vaccine dose. Prime Minister tests positive for covid-19 Rowley is in isolation and under medical supervision. CMO: PM will have to wait six months Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Roshan Parasram this morning said … Continue reading PM Rowley tests positive for COVID-19
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe March 15, 2021 It must have been in the early 1940s. My father slapped my mother. She took him to court. Six months later the trial took place. The magistrate asked what had happened. My mother told him. ‘Have you made back up now?’ the magistrate asked. ‘Yes,’ my mother … Continue reading When love ceases
By Raffique Shah February 15, 2021 I was wondering how many more candlelight vigils that seemed to be a genuine groundswell of public opinion on violent crimes against women would be staged in the name of abduction and murder victim Andrea Bharatt before two-by-two politicians sought to hijack what they would see as a mass … Continue reading Do not pollute protests with politics
By Raffique Shah December 06, 2020 Posted: December 08, 2020 The ethnic mix of the Venezuelan population—51 percent are categorised as Mestizo (blend of White/indigenous/Afro), 41 percent European/Middle East /Whites)—ensures that those who are flocking Trinidad more than Tobago are almost exclusively from the first mix. They are the equivalents of the “Reds” in our … Continue reading It’s a topsy-turvy world
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 21, 2020 “Nobody can be properly termed educated who knows little or nothing of the history of his own race and of his country.” —Frederick Alexander Durham, The Lone-Star of Liberia. In his epoch-breaking work Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams noted that racism is a product of slavery. “The … Continue reading Thinking Race/Understanding Color
By Dr Selwyn Cudjoe September 14, 2020 Over 6.5 million people in the United States are afflicted with the coronavirus, while 194,000 people have died from it. More Americans have died collectively from this virus than those who died in the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq wars and the World Trade Center bombing.
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 21, 2020 I have been following the “the polytricks” taking place in Guyana, a land that “has been a torn and tortured terrain with divisive seeds sown in the colonial waters” as Sir Hilary Beckles described it (Express, July 13.) It’s not an overreach to say we are witnessing … Continue reading Making a Truce with Reality
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe January 27, 2020 IF one ever believed the PNM Government could solve the present crime epidemic in the country, one had better think again. It is unlikely to do so for the simple reason that neither our Prime Minister nor Minister of National Security seems to understand the magnitude of … Continue reading Who is without blame?