At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are some of the world’s least talked about places and yet all three have interesting stories to tell. Stories of sugar and slavery, calypso and cults. In this series of videos I’m going to tell the story, of the Guianas…

How Guyana Was Made

Guyana is a place of deep, deep social fractures. It has the 20th highest homicide rate in the world, almost three times the global average. Almost anywhere here in the capital city it’s strongly advised not to walk alone at night.

CALCUTTA KE DEPOT SE-ROCK UR ROOTZ

In 2013 is het 140 jaar geleden dat de eerste Hindustaanse contractarbeiders vanuit India naar Suriname kwamen

CALCUTTA KE DEPOT SE-ROCK UR ROOTZ

In 2013 is het 140 jaar geleden dat de eerste Hindustaanse contractarbeiders vanuit India naar Suriname kwamen

Guyana: An African Dictatorship?

The story of Guyana is winding, and often dark. Guyana at independence, you could say, was made up of people who rather hadn’t wanted to come here. This video is going to tell the story of Guyana since its independence and how it came to be where it is now, a country about to be transformed. We are going to look at its divisions and its darkness and hopefully also what is beautiful. This is the story of the years of Linden Forbes Burnham.

Guyana: An African Dictatorship?

The story of Guyana is winding, and often dark. Guyana at independence, you could say, was made up of people who rather hadn’t wanted to come here. This video is going to tell the story of Guyana since its independence and how it came to be where it is now, a country about to be transformed. We are going to look at its divisions and its darkness and hopefully also what is beautiful. This is the story of the years of Linden Forbes Burnham.

Guyana: An African Dictatorship?

The story of Guyana is winding, and often dark. Guyana at independence, you could say, was made up of people who rather hadn’t wanted to come here. This video is going to tell the story of Guyana since its independence and how it came to be where it is now, a country about to be transformed. We are going to look at its divisions and its darkness and hopefully also what is beautiful. This is the story of the years of Linden Forbes Burnham.

Guyana: The World’s Newest Petrostate

Since independence Guyana has been dysfunctional and neglected, the product of the colonial powers transporting hundreds of thousands of people from Asia and Africa to grow sugar for them. That might be about to change. In 2015, Exxonmobil announced that it had struck oil off the coast of Guyana. Since then, Exxon has found an average of 1.7 billion barrels per year, one of the biggest oil strikes in history, in a country of only 800,000 people. As of 2023, Guyana’s economy is three times larger than it was only three years ago and Guyana has more barrels of oil per person than any other country in the world. This video is about everything you need to know to understand Guyana, today.