So there I was at the National Round-table conference on social cohesion on Thursday and during an informal conversation (which I had no business listening to but was listening to anyway) one of the speakers brought up the issue of Guyanese having a dream that speaks to their “Guyanese-ness” – essentially she was referring to the Guyanese Dream.
My research on the issue led me to a novel by Stephen Spencer in which he examines the Guyanese dream and identity. His book is entitled: A Dream Deferred: Guyanese Identity and the Shadows of Colonialism.
In his writings, Spencer notes that Guyana once stood at the cusp of a robust identity, with an array of enviable accomplishments – the literary arts, sports, and economic sustainability. Now the South American nation is a mere skeleton of itself.
So for the entirety of Thursday I was asking persons what is the Guyanese dream. All the…
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Tiffini Thomas 