May 31, 2012

The Indian Diaspora



http://www.nriol.com/indiandiaspora/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Caribbean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_diaspora_in_East_Africa
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Diaspora/reflect.html
http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3015348/
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/commentaries/The_sufferings_of_the_East_Indians-155218415.html
http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2012-05-28/indian-diaspora-enhances-concept-diversity-tt
http://www.mahavidya.ca/hinduism-beyond-india/hindu-diaspora/
http://www.sikhpioneers.org/t_usphot.html


Indians in Malaysia
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers7/paper618.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Indian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Malaysians
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2011/02/28/malaysian-indians-a-sad-story/
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers43%5Cpaper4212.html
http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/from-around-the-blogs/48043-450000-stateless-indians-in-malaysia-fact-or-fiction-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_x5cUk7NKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-DDifxSp4

East Africa
http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/pdf/076076.pdf

South Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6dDAH1Fq1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeIOmULxkAc

Caribbean
http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2012-05-29/professor-samaroo-indentured-workers-made-caribbean-better-place

World
http://vinaylal.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/when-hinduism-meets-the-internet/
 http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/hindu-communities-in-mauritius-guyana-trinidad-south-africa-fiji-and-east-africa/

Prince Among Slaves

Prince among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold Into Slavery in the American South
In 1807, an Irish ship's surgeon recognized a slave at a Mississippi produce market as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi, residents, had been captured by warring tribesmen when he was 26 years old, sold to slavetraders, and shipped to America. An educated, aristocratic slave, Abd Rahman Ibrahima was made overseer of the large cotton and tobacco plantation of his master, who refused to sell him to the doctor for any price. After 25 years of petitioning, Dr. Cox finally gained Ibrahima his freedom, through the intercession of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay. Sixty-six-year-old Ibrahima sailed for Africa the following year, with his wife, two sons, and several grandchildren, and died there of fever just five months after his arrival. Prince Among Slaves is the first full account of Ibrahima's life, pieced together from first-person accounts and historical documents. It is not only a remarkable story, but the story of a remarkable man, who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or his hope for freedom.
Biography
Book
Documentary

May 30, 2012

Last Lap Lime Vendors' Flyer



The LAST LAP LIME http://www.lastlaplime.com/ will be taking place in Toronto on August 6th, 2012. 

The message below is addressed to vendors. Come ONE, Come ALL



      

Don’t be disappointed reserve a space on

VENDOR’S ROW

TENTS CAN BE SHARED FROM $200.00 + UP!



We expect over 5,000 visitors on

 Monday August 6 2012

At Woodbridge Fairgrounds



Every one of them is your potential customer

. Don’t miss out, apply today, space is very limited!



FREE ADVERTISING

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Our Mandate is to:



·       Create an environment reflective of our culture

·       Provide safe, fun-filled family entertainment

·       Promote a profitable fund raising event

·       Donate to charities



To guarantee your business has a booth at this event, please contact Joanne Davis:joannedavis201@gmail.com for a  Vendor Application Form, now.



SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED

*Completed Application Forms Received prior to June 22nd 2012 will qualify for a 10% discount.

    
                                                                                                        

Plays by Colin Bobb-Semple



This play, a Courtroom Drama for Film, TV and Stage, which is presented mainly in a Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey courtroom setting in London, England, concerns the murder trial of a young man of African-Caribbean descent, who became involved in a fatal wounding of another young man of African-Caribbean descent, at a London night club.





Preview
https://www.createspace.com/pub/community/give.review.do?id=1102203&rewrite=true

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1477503692/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books


Fatal Protest: A 'Riot'?
PREVIEW (Published 29 May)
 
A protest occurs in London about a death of an African-Caribbean grandmother in police custody; there is a confrontation between the protesters and the police; a police officer sustains a fatal injury, resulting in an Old Bailey homicide trial of the woman's grandson, with tragic consequences.

Nabta Playa

Calendar aswan.JPGEgyptians objected strongly in 1983 when Louis Gossett Jr., a black actor, played the part of President Sadat in a US tv serial http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086229/
on the latter's life. It was considered an insult to Egypt. The same type of cognitive dissonance is perhaps obvious with regard to their own history, as seen in a comment on the origins of the Civilisation by Amr Atef, tour guide, that the First Egyptians came from Asia Minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBKnRlAdTs&feature=related.  

Even though Egypt is obviously in Africa and the source of the Nile River is obviously in Uganda, the general feeling was that Egyptian Civilisation could not have absolutely anything to do with Africa. (What would have prevented Blacks going north of Aswan when it is now clear that they populated the world?) It had to be, supposedly, an offshoot of Mesopotaminan Civilisation. The New York Metropolitan Museum used to have its Egyptian Collection in its Near East Collection up to the 1980s at least.

That the oldest language family, the Afro-Asiatic language family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb5etqx2_UU had to have had its origins in Africa itself is, even today, difficult for many to understand. Of its five sub-groups only Semitic (e.g Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, etc.) is spoken outside of Africa. The fact that the other members of the family (Chadic, Berber, Cushitic, Ancient Egyptian) are/were on spoken on the continent indicates that the proto-language first saw the light of day on the continent too. Try telling anyone that Hebrew and Arabic are, in a sense, African languages!

So, any evidence for the possible African origin of Egyptian civilisation has to be very carefully presented, especially since for many, Arabic is a sacred language. That is why the research evidence particularly from Nabta Playa is particularly important.

Napta Playa Complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabta_Playa 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh78Hf777_I&feature=relmfu 2
Napta Playa African Archaeology
http://wysinger.homestead.com/nabtaplaya.html
http://archaeology.about.com/od/nterms/g/nabta_playa.htm
http://www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk/nabtaplayaegypt.html

Astronomy
http://www.gnosticsecrets.com/pages/nabta_playa.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbfeuqqdcPc&feature=related

Origins of the Ancient Egyptians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FciCAXYWx3s&feature=related

Black Genesis

Changes coming to CXC Exams

http://saints.edu.gy/Magazines/SSC-Magazines.htm


The most distinguished Caribbean person of Lebanese-Syrian descent, Edward Seaga of Jamaica.


http://www2.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/SyrianLebaneseinTrinidadandTobago/tabid/283/Default.aspx?PageContentMode=1
http://thisisbeirut.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/lebanese-in-the-caribbean-se/
http://caribbeanhistoryarchives.blogspot.ca/2011/10/syrian-lebanese-community.html
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jsa_0037-9174_1969_num_58_1_2103

Afro-Descendants in Latin America

In the Motocycle Diaries, Che Guevara  makes this observation: "The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."

All the more reason for everyone to know the history of Africans in Latin America and to critically examine Eurocentric analyses of history.


Brazil: An Inconvenient History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUdCIfPEJdE&feature=related

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5XuFgY3eg&feature=related

Book Review
http://afroeurope.blogspot.ca/2011/01/what-is-black-atlantic-my-comparative.html

Essays

Nubia Today


Aswan Temples and the Nubians of Upper Egypt.
Nubian Museum


May 29, 2012

The French Republic

File:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg









The American Constitution and the Federalist Papers

The American Constitution represents an effort by ordinary men to govern themselves properly with all the checks and balances possible. The Constitutions inherited in the Anglophone Caribbean along the Westminister model may be giving too much power to incumbent administrations and have not been a great success in the former British colonies worldwide . So in working out constitutional frameworks more suited to our societies it might be good to look at the process undertaken to formulate and to promote the ratification of the American one. Perfection, if it exists, doesn't come overnight.



May 26, 2012

Prof. Stuart Hall -The Notion of Representation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall-cultural-legacy-britain-godfather-multiculturalism
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21895-rage-against-the-dying-of-a-light-stuart-hall-1932-2014
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/british-black-intellectual-stuart-hall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/caed0ab9
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/13/276443894/why-stuart-hall-was-the-godfather-of-multiculturalism
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/stuart-hall-project
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/jeremy-gilbert/tribute-to-stuart-hall

Video The Notion of Representation

The Black Mummy of Libya




The British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914 – 2003) infamously made the comment that Africa has no history. Research is putting the lie to that statement in many ways. The problem is that the world as a whole still believes that lie. The African origin of Homo Sapiens still tends to be rejected out of hand by people who prefer to feel confortable with their prejudices. All the more reason for Caribbean peoples to know the truth. So we can start with a mummy which is 5,500 years old.....

a mummy of a child found in Wadi Tashwinat  Acacus by Mori

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThQN0dY31YU
http://www.temehu.com/wan-muhuggiag.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uan_Muhuggiag
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=000742
http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-six-thousand-year-old-mummies-from-takarkori-libya/

Chinua Achebe on "An Image of Africa"
http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html

The Mystery of the Black Mummy movie posterRelated Book
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0tU4CW2rfg
http://www.thomasgbrophy.com/?page_id=61
http://www.migration-diffusion.info/article.php?subject=trade&id=255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bkNlGg0H0

The Big Bang

Where to start with regard to the Laws of Physics? Perhaps at the very beginning, but even then we can't be sure. A wide range of presentation of the known facts is offered below.
How did the Universe begin?

Guyana Independence 1966

Coat of Arms

Guyana Independence Act
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/14/data.pdf
Independence granted to Guyana
http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter182.html
Guyana Independence Bill
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1966/apr/29/guyana-independence-bill
History and Heraldry
http://www.hubert-herald.nl/Guyana.htm
Whose Freedom at Midnight?
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/guyana-review/09/03/politics/print/


A Happy 46th Independence Anniversary to All!

May 25, 2012

Portuguese Emigration to Guyana

The month of May was also that of the arrival of the first Portuguese immigrants to the then British Guiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Guyanese
http://www.guyana.org/special/portuguese.html
http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter47.html
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/archives/05/04/a-brief-history-of-the-portuguese-in-guyana/
http://www.guyanesepride.com/about/portuguese.asp
http://radicalcaribwriter.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/portguese-history/
http://www.yourislandroutes.com/portuguese/madeiransguiana.shtml
http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/tag/madeirans/
http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/glimpses-of-guyanese-history-the-portuguese-1931/
http://www.guyanaundersiege.com/Cultural/Madeiram%20Portuguese%20in%20Guyana.htm
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CARIBBEAN/2001-04/0986479373
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13898811/1990emigrationportuguese-islands
http://www.slideshare.net/aubynjm/portugese-migrants-to-the-caribbean
http://www.cariwave.com/Portuguese_Indentureship.htm
http://repeatingislands.com/2010/05/06/portuguese-heritage-from-madeira-to-guyana/
http://everything.explained.at/Portuguese_immigrants_in_Guyana/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-helena-martin%E2%80%99s-memoir-growing-up-in-guyana-review/

From Madeira to British Guiana
http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/portuguese-emigration-from-madeira-to-british-guiana/
http://guyanachronicle.com/the-arrival-of-the-portuguese-in-british-guiana/
https://guyaneseonline.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/madeiran-portuguese-migration-to-guyana-st-vincent-antigua-and-trinidad.pdf

A brief history of Portuguese in Buxton/Friendship
http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/a-brief-history-of-portuguese-in-buxtonfriendship/

Books
http://books.google.ca/books?id=FyVQ0Hn-YjkC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=The+Madeirans+in+Guyana&source=bl&ots=0reS4wpO-3&sig=PaZAYLB8SIbSjf-nUraa_TH6h6M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rXDAT8GnPIqT6gHNidyfCg&sqi=2&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=The%20Madeirans%20in%20Guyana&f=false

Madeira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Portugal/Regiao_Autonoma_da_Madeira/Madeira_Island-285785/Things_To_Do-Madeira_Island-TG-C-28.html

Of Interest
http://languageblag.com/2015/02/23/portuguese-in-trinidad/
http://www.dholmes.com/master-list/madeira/madeira.html

Three Canadian Museums

Dairy Barn - Canada Agriculture MuseumInformation relevant to school projects can be obtained by visiting the sites of these museums.



Canada Agriculture Museum
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/english/indexhpnagr.cfm


Technology Park


Canada Science and Technology Museum
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/index.cfm





Canada Aviation and Space Museum
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

Some interesting pages
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/english/bees/default.php
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/english/FoodForHealth/Games-and-Activities.html
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/2011-exhibition-energy-power-to-choose.cfm
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/schoolzone/kidszone.cfm
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/schoolzone/virtual_programs.cfm
http://www.energy.technomuses.ca/english/2012-questions-and-answers-on-media-coverage.html
http://www.energy.technomuses.ca/english/2012-questions-and-answers-on-media-coverage.html

Related site
http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php



May 24, 2012

Peter D'Aguiar



An alumnus of Saints, Peter D'Aguiar and his role in Guyanese history are sometimes forgotten.

Virtual Tour of the Louvre

Students, if you're studying or know French, a useful exercise would be to take the tours in French.
 
These videos are a good start. http://www.louvre.fr/en/media-en-ligne
 
You can switch to English by clicking on Select Language in the top right corner. Some material is only available in French.
 
General Info
 
Other Videos
 
 

Dr. Joseph Bradford


Alumnus Dr. Joseph Bradford was a co-founder of the Society of Friends for Africa's Development (SOFFAD).









May 23, 2012

King Tut in French and English


In French
Résurrection
In English
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7070000/newsid_7077600/7077665.stm
http://bestdnatest.org/tag/egypt/

Egyptian Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmUF3-E7Yk&feature=relmfu 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQzCT1_kwOQ&feature=relmfu 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAB4fnhQfo&feature=relmfu 3

How did King Tut Die?
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/how-did-king-tut-die-cause-death-established#video
The Curse of the Mummy
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/bija-knowles/curse-king-tut-video-guide-avoiding-it#video
Tutankhamun's Treasures
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=867754515839389798#editor/target=post;postID=1553829694755670024
The Robbing of King Tut's Tomb
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/how-king-tut%E2%80%99s-tomb-avoided-robbery#video

Guided Tour of Cairo Museum
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/preserving-king-tuts-guts-canopic-shrine-and-jars-introduced#video 1
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/sean-williams/treasures-king-tuts-tomb-animal-gods-explained-dr-janice-kamrin#video 2
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/treasures-king-tut-tutankhamuns-jewellery-and-love-queen#video 3
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/malcolmj/treasures-kv62-king-tuts-funerary-figures#video 4

DNA
http://io9.com/why-king-tuts-dna-is-fueling-race-wars-1539130793

The Reconstruction Debate
Picture of King Tut's facial reconstruction


Digital Textbooks

The future of books is largely digital. Ministries of Education around the world have to bear this in mind as part of forward planning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_textbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15175962

Ken Corsbie


Since his days at Saints Ken Corsbie has gone on to be a household name all over the Caribbean.
Arriving in America
Monkey Liver Soup
11 o'clock Goods Train
Bajan Directions
Beauty Contests
Oral Inoculation
Standup in DC 1994
Talk and More Talk
Dem Two
Ken Corsbie and Friends and Caribbean Poetry
Ken Corsbie with 3 more Caribbean poems
Ken Corsbie Dances
Ken Corsbie and Friends at Theatre Guild Guyana
Special Guest Aubrey Cummings
Ken Corsbie uploaded Marc Matthews video
(This mango sweet - 1)
(This mango sweet - 3)
Ken Corsbie narrates Caribbean Eye

May 22, 2012

Saints' Alumnus wins $80,000 (CAN) Scholarship


http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/qc-boy-wins-cdn80000-scholarship/

Congratulations to Glinton Hanover, a former student of Saint Stanislaus College (2006-2011), who now attends QC and is the winner of an $80,000 (CAN) scholarship to pursue the Internationale Baccalaureate program at Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, B.C.
http://www.ibo.org/school/000034/

Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana David Devine congratulating Glinton Hanover.He attended Saints from Sept. 2006 (after writing the NGSE) to 2011. His results after writing the CSEC in 2011 are as follows: Eng.A -11, Phys.- 1, Chem.- 1, Bio.- 1, PE 1, Human Bio.- 1, Geo.- 11, IT- 11. In 2010, he wrote Maths at CSEC and obtained a grade 1.

As a student of Weld House, he successfully participated in Inter- House Sports and  represented Saints at the Inter-Zone level. His athletic record is outstanding: he  placed first at under 12 and 14, 100m and 200m track events. He placed 1st at Inter School 100m, under 12, thus qualifying for the Zone level. He placed 2nd at Inter House and Schools long jump. Glinton was also a prefect and the top student for SSC at the Physical Education and Sport CSEC Exam.


In the photo, he is seen being congratulated by the Canadian High Commissioner, David Devine.

Glinton Lexroy HanoverLester B. Pearson College www.pearsoncollege.ca is a member of the United World Colleges or UWCs.  UWCs are an association of twelve international boarding campuses situated all over the world. Established in the 1960s in Britain, the schools bring together students from more than a hundred countries to study for two years together in a culture of international understanding, academic excellence and community service. Besides pursuing the demanding International Baccalaureate diploma, a high school certificate accepted in most countries and respected by the world’s most elite universities, students engage in regular service sessions and numerous extracurricular activities. Students are admitted to UWCs through a network of more than 130 national committees operating all over the globe. As UWCs are committed to providing scholarships for their students, admission in most countries is very competitive, with more than a hundred students applying for one scholarship in some countries. After graduation, UWC alumni have doors open to the world’s best universities, with high numbers accepted every year to Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth, as well as to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.

Glinton met the following criteria:
- A citizen of Guyana with permanent residency in Guyana
- A student of any High School in Guyana with one year left of high school  before graduating at the    time of applying
- No less than 16 years of age and no more than 19 years of age at the time of enrolling at UWC (September 2012)
-GPA for the last transcript on the top 15% of the class
- Commitment to the UWC ideals of international understanding, community service and academic excellence.

The scholarship covers tuition, accomodation, food, books, and in special circumstances may cover the cost of the airfare to and from Canada.

Related
http://www.caribnewsdesk.com/news/8049-humble-guyanese-village-boy-gets-additional-canadian-scholarship
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2014/news/stories/06/21/guyanese-pearson-awardee-granted-scholarship/



May 21, 2012

History of the Caribbean




French Overseas Départements

Barbados
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad
Cuba
Haiti
Surinam

Books
A Brief History of the Caribbean
From Columbus to Castro
The Tainos