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African Revitalization Movement forum today for Bagotville Community Centre
The Cuffy 250 Committee, in collaboration with La Retraite/Stanleytown Development Group, Bagotville Cultural Circle and Good Intent-Sisters African Revitalization Movement, will hold a forum on “The State of the African Guyanese Community” on Sunday March 30 from 2pm to 6pm at the Bagotville Community Centre, West Bank Demerara.
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The Cuffy 250 Committee is a new organization that is dedicated to encouraging socio-economic and cultural revitalization within the African Guyanese community and the fostering of ethnic and racial equality in Guyana.
Under the theme “African Guyanese Revitalization: Restoring the African Guyanese communities as spaces of Education, Culture and Economic Vitality” the forum will focus on the State of Education, the rising incidence of violence and the need for economic renewal in the African Guyanese Community. Speakers will include Vincent Alexander, Carl Greenidge, Karen DeSouza, Eve Blackman, Jonothan Adams, David Hinds and Nigel Hughes.
This forum is part of the broader work of the Cuffy 250 Committee, which over the last year has held similar forums in Georgetown, Dartmouth and Linden. Cuffy 250 believes that over the last two decades there has developed in the African Guyanese community an over-dependence on Government and so-called Non-Governmental Agencies as the only sources of empowerment and less emphasis on utilizing their own indigenous energies.
Hence the main objective of the forum is to bring together African Guyanese in the West Demerara area in one place to begin an honest conversation on the deteriorating socio-economic and cultural condition of their communities and how they can start the process of revitalization.
Cuffy 250 is made up of a group of Guyanese in the USA and Guyana who came together in 2013 to observe the 250th anniversary of the Berbice Revolt, led by Cuffy, against the slave system. They wanted to celebrate and draw inspiration from foreparents who resisted slavery.
The group wanted people to remember that though enslaved against their will, they did not sit down and do nothing. They did not accept that they were born to be slaves. They resisted and fought back. But more than that, they wanted to draw attention to the deteriorating economic, political, social and cultural condition in the African Guyanese community today and to say to people that just as their foreparents struggled to change their situation, they can do so today.
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