Speaker: Nigel Westmaas

The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than 10,000 enslaved people that took place in the colony of Demerara-Essequibo (modern day Guyana)

Guyanese researcher and public scholar Nigel Westmaas is Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. He has published articles in journals and newspapers including “Resisting Orthodoxy: Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working People’s Alliance” in Small Axe journal; a chapter titled “An Organic Activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana and global Pan-Africanism” in the text Black Power in the Caribbean (University Press of Florida, 2014). … Read on ...

This conversation explores the complex current political landscape of Haiti, examines the societal challenges faced by the Haitian people, and discusses how these challenges have affected the country’s development. In this conversation we aim to present Haiti’s realities on the ground from the voices of Haitians.