I'm from Lethem, I'm an Afro Amerindian mix. Lethem is an Amerindian majority town where many of them are dual citizens of Guyana and Brazil. There are some of the older generations who dont speak any English only the language of their tribe. Almost all of the younger generations speak both English and Portuguese but not their native languages. Aside from the recent Venezuelan migrants no one speak Spanish. I would argue that Lethem and the surrounding areas are more connected to Brazil than Venezuela because many of them have relatives over there.
@dopamine3255
2 ай бұрын
Lethem is miles away from the Venezuelan border unlike region one essequibo that's why you find a lot of people in the bordering area with Venezuela in region 1 speak Spanish vice-versa.
@Draintheswamp888
2 ай бұрын
Just like BERBICE where many Guyana speak creole Afrikaans ..
@Draintheswamp888
2 ай бұрын
@@john-hk5pu it’s sad this is due to our weak corrupt politicians who don’t promote our true culture country wide ..
@ew374
2 ай бұрын
@@Draintheswamp888yes. But the people can continue trading. Ignore the government,. They all garbage without sense
@djames84722
Ай бұрын
@@Draintheswamp888 Ithaca Village for sure, Rosignol.
@Zilero
4 ай бұрын
What an incredibly intimate look at the interior! You’ve gotta be the only person on KZitem going to these super remote places - loving this series so far!
@glynphelps9027
3 ай бұрын
no there a lot it has become a genre
@Zilero
3 ай бұрын
@@glynphelps9027 oh interesting, have you come across any other good ones you’d recommend?
@yatradeocoomar5166
2 ай бұрын
Hope he enlightened you about malaria 🦟
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
I hope he gets it in the worst way, no return. 😂@@yatradeocoomar5166
@queenmotheraishaseopaul1278
2 ай бұрын
So many inaccuracies. There was no African political party. What are you trying to achieve?You are attempting to distort and change Guyana's History. Anyway, you are not the first to try that. Do you really understand and know the characteristics of a dictator??.
@Kayyoumali
4 ай бұрын
You have certainly captured the essence of that period of time of my beloved country. Thank you for making it, and I look forward to the next episode...
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@resireg
22 күн бұрын
@@AlexRothmanthe secret is to be apolytical. The moment it is good guys vs bad guys, it becomes boring. People have good and bad at the same time
@thijndeveer2592
3 ай бұрын
This is what travel is about. Truly understanding a country. I found your channel last year when i was doing research on sri lanka before going there. Just awesome content. Keep travelling and researching. I have no words for the quality of your movies. Insane
@AlexRothman
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 🙂
@RyanChand-c5b
Ай бұрын
I agree this is what traveling is for
@coldavid1573
2 ай бұрын
As a Guyanese who lived and still live in Guyana,I must say this video is fill with inaccuracies😮...
@CamilleRodrigues-q5b
2 ай бұрын
IT'S THE TRUTH ,I KNOW FOR A FACT.
@coldavid1573
2 ай бұрын
@@CamilleRodrigues-q5b I didn't ask a question...smh
@zk4761
2 ай бұрын
What's more important is that people are having the discussion. Go from there.
@twilight.lotusthoughts7575
Ай бұрын
Like?
@rda6029
Ай бұрын
The irony is that for the last 30 years Guyana has been run by the PPP which is a corrupt indian nationalist party!
@Joe_Yacketori
Ай бұрын
This series is so exceptionally good, man. The history mixed with your own footage format is ingenious, and your footage and narration is just incredibly well done. You seem to have an incredible talent for finding remote places and interesting folks who live there, and putting it to film in the most interesting way possible. And you don't ham it up, you just let the subject speak for itself. I am looking forward to going through your whole backlog.
@youngboyyneverbrokeagain
Ай бұрын
This is bull
@Joe_Yacketori
Ай бұрын
@@youngboyyneverbrokeagain Alright, then let's hear your articulate, persuasive rebuttal.
@ShaheenGhiassy
4 ай бұрын
I like the history + travel combo. Nice work
@amarsookram
2 ай бұрын
Your opening statement “the world wasn’t watching” is highly inaccurate. The USA/CIA fully supported the dictatorship in Guyanese.
@queentiff9827
2 ай бұрын
And they are fully supporting the dictatorship now. The theft of oil monies, sugarcane workers mention, land theft, what about the killings of many activists. They are supporting the politicians pocketing the revenues and not allows the citizens to benefit so America can get what they want.
@Gods_Worship_Sanctuary
2 ай бұрын
So what do u have to say about the current dictatorship that taking place in Guyana under the current regime???
@Sid-gu5qk
2 ай бұрын
I think he meant the world media.
@007mooo6
2 ай бұрын
@@Gods_Worship_Sanctuarythe usa support it too
@carribgirl007
2 ай бұрын
@Gods_Worship_Sanctuary There is no dictatorship going on in Guyana.
@markwachter9159
4 ай бұрын
Great stuff brother. Keep 'em coming. Feed the algorithm everybody!
@ianhercules7290
2 ай бұрын
This report is a blasted lie. BURNHAM WAS THE BEST LEADER.
@calebburton848
4 ай бұрын
I love your videos my man! The mix of travel and history on your channel add depth you don’t get often. Keep it up. Looking forward to seeing what you make!
4 ай бұрын
love the video production and visuals of Guyana and its beauty. Your respect of the people and their cultures is wonderful and heartwarming especially from tourists. Additionally, the story of LFS Burnham while a small glimpse of the dictator is refreshing to be publicised. Many denies the atrocities and hardly anyone ever mentions it (likely most wanna forget it while others were 'fortunate' and/or propagandised), but I have heard so many stories from my grandparents and elders. The Ballot Box Martyrs is one of the many stories in the fight for a free Guyana.
@rosedookie2760
Ай бұрын
Under Burnham many must never forget the Wismar massacre that took place in the 1960s. I was living in Guyana as a young child when that happened. I met many Guyanese over the years and some believe that's in the past but it should not be forgotten because it happened two times again in modern times. Guyana is a beautiful country and I think the Government in power is doing an excellent job
@mattturner2040
4 ай бұрын
So good man, love the format, absolutely fascinating. Always looking forward to the next one!
@leahjolliff71
Ай бұрын
I agree the format it great. He did a good job.
@robbieohanlon396
4 ай бұрын
Always amazing, unique and interesting content. Please keep it up!
@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
2 ай бұрын
Guyana is an incredible country .i am so glad i was borned in the best country in the world with so many adventures. I may be a canadian but guyana will always hold a special place in my heart.
@resireg
22 күн бұрын
So, most Hindu Guyanese abandoned the land..I guess no patriotism there
@EMan-cu5zo
15 күн бұрын
Why did you leave to g o to a place so cold? Also to pay half of everything you earn to the crazy’s running the place?
@saphtou6057
2 ай бұрын
Currently binging your series on my country, and man, I've gotta say the journalism is amazing.
@suddie1215
2 ай бұрын
This "documentary" is what you get when you allow a relatively uninformed outsider to tell your story. Regarding the claim that there was no infrastructure; the British left a functional railway system that ran from Rossignol to Georgetown on the East Coast, and from Vreed-en-hoop to Parika on the West Coast. I know because I rode those trains many times. The Burnham government decided to scrap the railway around 1971 and replaced it with cheap Tata buses imported from India. The buses all fell apart within about 6 months but by that time the railway lines were being ripped up and the locomotives given to several African countries. If my memory is correct some steam engines went to Zambia where they might still be in operation. Then the 1973 Arab oil embargo occurred and Guyana did not have the foreign exchange to import food or fuel; the government was forced into taking loans from agencies like the IMF and World Bank, and countries like Trinidad. This is a major fact that's never mentioned in this "documentary."
@queentiff9827
2 ай бұрын
You brought up some valid point. Even though I was born way after the time you speak of, his details are quiet inaccurate. He may have put it over so eloquently and to be persuasive but Alex did not get the facts.
@hafizkhan4031
2 ай бұрын
@suddie1215 you mean the railway was sold, and the money went into a dictator pocket. The current Guyana Govt needs to publish all documents pertaining to the railways, leaving Guyana.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@hafizkhan4031. The monies went to Hamas
@hafizkhan4031
2 ай бұрын
@StevenBiko1 A black sleuth dog that never stops barking ,that is the effect one gets when one drinks Congo pump tree leaves for tea ,and eating black pudding sadly no brain development to have a meaningful discussion or mabie one of those that the Guyana Govt pay to raise as a child because of single mother help from social services ministries.
@hafizkhan4031
2 ай бұрын
@StevenBiko1 black sleuth dog that never stops barking ,brain dead" Aead" that thinks that 32 is greater than 33.
@mouriritz
4 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this video! The mixture between telling Guayanas history and showing yourself actually getting to know the country in person is just perfect! Now i'm subscribed, keep up the good work!
@omaveira1979
Ай бұрын
You ignorant people ought to learned your history. If you haven’t by now you still have the slavery mentality. There are hundreds of documentations on how America and England put Burnham in power and banned all food products, yet his home had all these things. Burnham told the Guyanese people he would do anything even sell his soul to be in power. I was maybe six years went the bombs were falling. I can still hear the bombs falling up to present. Not a nice sight for a little child.
@fractaldesignnode304black9
4 ай бұрын
Mr. Alex you’re the best, we’ll miss you in school
@producedbypodcast
4 ай бұрын
Amazing job with your videos, looking forward to seeing more!
@henrg
4 ай бұрын
Really interesting mix of historical and documentary footage. Great stuff!
@ESC_jackqulen
4 ай бұрын
This video is worth the wait ❤thank you
@CrisWhetstone
4 ай бұрын
I'm really enjoying these videos with the great combination of history and travelogue. Have to say, seeing Adam with a smart phone in his hand was interesting. We would love to know about how connected every day Guyanans are with the outside world.
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
I think pretty connected, like almost everywhere smart phone penetration is thorough
@CrisWhetstone
4 ай бұрын
@@AlexRothman Thanks Alex. I was surprised at Adam and his smart phone due to how remote You indicated the people on the interior were. Having service to support a smart phone surprised me a bit given that description. Thanks for the follow up. Looking forward to the next video in the series. Thank you!
@twilight.lotusthoughts7575
Ай бұрын
They aren't tribes living with no outside contact lol. It's just that due to poor roads and distance they are a bit disconnected from resources but they all have phones, access to Internet, they get supplies from Brazil or when they go into a city, etc.
@teddydog6229
2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much ! I read a book years ago called 'Journey to Nowhere' by Shiva Naipaul about the Jonestown catastrophe. A lot of the book dealt with the Forbes Burnham dictatorship and got me really interested in the subject. But finding further info about it was extremely difficult. Even with the internet there wasn't much to go on so this video was a real feast ! It's about time the Burnhamite nastiness has come to light.
@ruhrok
4 ай бұрын
bro i await your uploads like a dope fiend 😭 i check like weekly, its been 2 months i’m so excited
@gammonface
4 ай бұрын
Haha, I came to the comments to say the exact same thing ! I'm glad this channel is finally starting to blow up. The production value is unreal.
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thanks guys, trying to get out videos as fast as I can while also writing and researching upcoming projects. There will be much more regular uploads starting in around October I think
@ruhrok
4 ай бұрын
@@AlexRothman it’s honestly no rush man! we sincerely appreciate it! the quality over quantity approach is so worth it! i enjoy watching your videos so much, after i found your first video on guyana i went back and watched so many of your videos including your entire series on sri lanka! thank so much man, keep up the great work! we’ll be here whenever the uploads come regardless!
@n09p
3 ай бұрын
@@AlexRothmandefinitely appreciate your thoroughness! These videos are so important especially for our future generations. A lot of our people don’t know the history of Guyana especially those who live abroad. Please take your time getting these videos out - Quality over quantity. Sending love and appreciation from NY!
@selwyngriffith1406
2 ай бұрын
Interesting perspective from one who contributed. Thanks for your views!
@rawbotanicalsjamaica739
Ай бұрын
Wow. As a Jamaican watching this hearing him talk about bitta cassava and sweet cassava. It shows how similar we are while being so different. Thank you for sharing.
@louvendran7273
4 ай бұрын
Guyana was basically the reverse of Uganda. When will people learn about mutual respect co-operation? I'm sure the US & India will their claws into Guyana to extract its share of the cheap oil. I hope the leaders of Guyana can begin with housing the poor, building up hospitals around the country, educating its people in engineering, construction, health sciences, farming, etc. to establish a self-sufficient, vibrant state. As I've seen the first construction projects are to house the American subcontractors & staff of Oil companies with luxurious seaside apartments & private schools etc for their civilian needs. So round 1 lost. Good luck, as inequality & family squabbles will increase as the petrodollars flow in.
@thea-levelmathteacher7673
Ай бұрын
Uganda’s decision to expel Indians was the best
@blackinton2526
22 күн бұрын
How can you compare Guyana and Uganda two completly different situations. Guyana is made up of people that were imported in while Uganda has it's native population, You are Tamil are you Indian? then let's look at India who have caste systems and people like black African descendants Siddis in India and Sri Lanka who are basically not even apart of Indian and Sri Lankan society they are completely outcasted look in the mirror before accusing Uganda of anything. It's India that's ranked the most racist country not Uganda
@cleanbowled1767
2 ай бұрын
Forbes Burnham of Guyana was not the only Caribbean leader to sport the Nationalist / Marxist-Leninist hat in the Caricom region during the latter half of 20th century. Different hybrid versions of this political ideology was adopted with various degree of influence across the Caribbean. In Grenada under Maurice Bishop, Dominica under Patrick John, Antigua under Lester Bird, Trinidad & Tobago under Dr. Eric Williams, Jamaica under Michael Manley, St. Vincent and the Grenadines under Milton Cato and of course Haiti under father and son Francois and Jean-claude Duvalier who cleverly straddled the Democrat-Communist fence to America's chagrin.
@itachiuchiha1167
2 ай бұрын
Now this is entertainment, I'm all for it! Exploring the country and showing people places not commonly known, amamzing job you've earned yourself a sub
@meg_allen
4 ай бұрын
So glad to see a new upload in this series! I enjoyed the first two Guianas videos so much and loved learning even more through this video. I hope that the boom in views your first video saw can carry over to this one as you and these videos absolutely deserve the viewership
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your comment and for watching!
@NC-qc7wd
Ай бұрын
This is better than any TV show. I am so impressed with your challenges and motivation to make a good history report. Just Brilliant.
@paulritter8109
4 ай бұрын
I just watched these three Guyana videos back to back. They are incredible! Our work in television news and have done so for over 25 years, and this is some of the best reporting I’ve ever seen. I can hardly wait for the next one.
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thank you, you’re very kind! Next one coming soon
@JonathanGsReturn
Күн бұрын
A truly outstanding documentary all round; fascinating. Good onya Alex!
@richardshiggins704
2 ай бұрын
Very interesting . Colonial Britain was the cause of much political and social discord worldwide . The arrogance of it all .
@ClockworkOuroborous
Ай бұрын
There's 65 countries that used to be part of the British Empire. There's a reason that 48 have a holiday celebrating them leaving.
@RyanChand-c5b
Ай бұрын
@@ClockworkOuroborousONG!
@gerardoferrer415
Ай бұрын
I live in South America, but never new almost anything about Guyana, though I remember the news of the mass suicide when I was a child. Only thing I would like to clarify, Essequibo is not the third largest river in South America, not even close. It is perhaps number twenty. Good work Alex, enjoyed the video, looking forward to see more of your content. Greetings from Uruguay!
@ralojnr2329
Ай бұрын
You have your info incorrect. Guyana was under sanctions from 1970 to 1992 by the us government, for its role and contributions to the African liberation struggles against apartheid. This is what is responsible for its economic woes and hardships during the PNC administration. Guyana was under colonial dictatorship for more than four hundred years, where its indigenous peoples and Africans were enslaved for more than 400 years. During slavery some of the world's worst atrocities were committed against the enslaved. Slavery ended in the eighteen hundreds and was followed by indentured servitude, which ended in the late eighteen hundreds. Free Africans were barred from buying fertile and prime lands but were sold over priced barren waste land and drainage reserve land, which was deliberately flooded at crop time to destabilize the free Africans, and to force them off the lands. While the indentured servants were given free arable lands for farming and for housing. Guyana didn't experience any development from the end of indentured servitude to Guyana's independence. However, after independence, the new government built over a hundred thousand houses all over Guyana. Free school from nursery to university. Free text books from nursery to university. Free school meals. Free or subsidized transportation for school children. Free school uniform for school children. Hundreds of millions of dollars in loans for farming and home ownership. And the list of achievements goes on and on. Now what the colonizers did wasn't a dictatorship? But the rapid development we achieved is a dictatorship? Make that make sense
@anamulhaquejasim1523
4 ай бұрын
Goddamn.❤ You mix history and travel so good even drugs can't compete with your content❤
@lancecorporal7605
4 ай бұрын
awesome your channel should have more subscribers...
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
@MrKiljeaden89
27 күн бұрын
Unbiased, and highly informative. All that combined with a pleasent narrative.
@andy_runs305
4 ай бұрын
Great video. Traveling through the interior seems like traveling back in time to much simpler times.
@davidlist7507
Ай бұрын
Beautiful cinematography, thank you very much for your KZitem content I really like your approach to the content!
@dwaynei2894
2 ай бұрын
The rupununi uprising was a blood bath my Grandfather was in charge of the police station at the time Five police officers - this included the constables James McKenzie, William Norton, Michael Kendall, Sergeant James Anderson and Inspector Whittington Braithwaite - along with two civilians, Victor Hernandez and Thomas James, were killed
@brucebrand3068
2 ай бұрын
May they rest in peace and not be forgotten
@mrchris6684
2 ай бұрын
Majority of Guyanese blacks are extremely educated
@hafizkhan4031
2 ай бұрын
@mrchris6684 Yes, reason why head is spells with an "A" instead of letter "H, and 32 is a greater number than 33."Have a good day that much for extremely educated.😂😂😂😂
@gshrdy5415
2 ай бұрын
Yes too extreme, you can't bare it.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@hafizkhan4031. Untouchables are historically illiterates
@daniyalbbd5281
2 ай бұрын
Not true but you can spread your fake neqs
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@daniyalbbd5281 another illiterate untouchable
@MrHmjg
4 ай бұрын
loved your sri lankan series. had indo Guyanese friends in canada in the 70's
@ccauf815
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the quality content on an area I know little about. Looking forward to the next videos.
@rosedookie2760
Ай бұрын
Hi I just found your video and subbed, thank you for sharing this video
@marshmallows4431
Ай бұрын
I think this was so enjoyable to watch and thank you for continuing the education about Guyana 🇬🇾. I also though think that it is important to recognise that those of us who were not around will not know why people such as Burnham really behaved in the way that they did.
@firdaushanapiah7691
29 күн бұрын
Professionally done! You deserve bigger views
@laion_uy
4 ай бұрын
This account should have +500k followers
@NielsZussblatt
3 ай бұрын
Between the Sri Lanka series and this one, you seem to be following the works of John Gimlette, who I see referenced in the notes. Is he a particular inspiration, and do you plan to cover Paraguay and Madagascar someday as he did in his writings?
@AlexRothman
3 ай бұрын
Well observed! Paraguay and Madagascar are very much projects I hope to do in the future. I'm not consciously following him but there we definitely have an interest in the same kind of places: countries with interesting but somewhat obscure histories
@kumbeetjirimuje4193
4 ай бұрын
Stellar production and story telling Alex.
@capricerowland4850
2 ай бұрын
Exactly, story telling. His story.
@john_____
4 ай бұрын
Same thing have been done in Sri Lanka by Indian slave labours who were brought by british , portuguese ,dutch and then immediately their slave labours outnumbered the native people in Sri lanka .
@englishcountryside4581
2 ай бұрын
@4:30 Cooperative Republic meant that the 6 races would now be “one” ❤ They were to cooperate and live as “one people ” No race would be superior. ❤ One People ❤ One Nation ❤ One Destiny ❤
@darknessreigns3038
2 ай бұрын
What logic did he use to come up with the title of the video? How was Guyana an African dictatorship?
@dopamine3255
2 ай бұрын
Under Burnham.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@dopamine3255. dope fiend
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@dopamine3255 The Brilliant LFS Burnham lives in you and your kinds empty heads and thoughts forever. 😂😂😂😂
@dopamine3255
2 ай бұрын
@StevenBiko1 I'm not the one who constantly blames bharat jagdeo for all my self-inflicted failures in life and constantly bang I'm my youths heads that he is the cause for them to even stump their toes 🤣. Jagdeo lives in you all. Touche!
@linmac1686
Ай бұрын
It was like an African dictatorship and ran like one which is true.
@nosho409
4 ай бұрын
Incredible video. So glad I found your channel.
@linmac1686
Ай бұрын
I remember Jonestown as a little girl. It was shocking. No Guyanese except the Burnham clan knew about this.
@Сибірськийукраїнець
4 ай бұрын
Your format is very interesting! Keep doing this!
@JurassicStoriesfilms
Ай бұрын
This is one of the best documentaries I've seen.
@johnnycrepaul547
2 ай бұрын
Many Guyanese with money left Guyana only the poor remains.
@zayna_j
4 ай бұрын
As a Guyanese New Zealander, these videos are so fascinating! Please keep it up!
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for the comment! Guyana has an incredibly interesting story that more people should know about
@surfboarding5058
20 күн бұрын
As a Kazakh Fijian I approve this message
@zayna_j
20 күн бұрын
@@surfboarding5058 😂😂
@Donmusty
2 ай бұрын
Great stuff keep it going...you have gained a new follower today!!
@ColmQuigley
4 ай бұрын
Great video Mr Alex!
@dreyb1801
Ай бұрын
That football game looked like so much fun. ❤
@ThePaintballgun
4 ай бұрын
Great content man keep it up
@keatonlibengood7738
4 ай бұрын
Loving this series
@annhans3535
2 ай бұрын
I was young when Burnham was President. My mother is Amerindian and Chinese, man we ate cassava and breadfruit in each which way to can use it. He banned the import of all food items. I hate breadfruit to this day and I am in my 50s. My younger uncles had to shipped out of Guyana because the dead swat would constantly be at my grandmother's house looking for them because they were always having meetings planning to overthrow Burnham. If you were a young man those were some very uncertain times getting picked up and beaten up. People disappeared and were killed.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
Amerindians eat cassava on a daily basis in the jungles of Guyana 🇬🇾, with uncleaned ,unseasoned meats currently to this present day. What is your point, that’s your culture, traditions and customs.
@tyronelowe7090
2 ай бұрын
Your historical accounts were pretty good wrt the Venezuelan conglict and the Rupunini upriding. Your hinterland trips were very good recordings of how difficult the roads are currently. However the road to Brazil is very soon going to become as economic corridor. Venezuela is stirring up trouble.
@leonardoo6150
4 ай бұрын
Commenting to support, great content!
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Much appreciated!
@lvtravelworlddiscovery4477
4 ай бұрын
Awesome Video my friend!
@quacyhope2536
2 ай бұрын
Burham did not ban the wheat 🌾 It Was the US and even when he secured a wheat deal with India 🇮🇳 the money still had to pass through the US financial system to make it to India 🇮🇳 and that too was eventually block (if u did know now ya know )
@theblackstarnews9448
Ай бұрын
They were not African "slaves." They were enslaved Africans. Big difference!
@christinapowley9012
Ай бұрын
Wish this guy uploads more
@puddy2216
2 ай бұрын
Guyanese must tell their own history. There are too many false narratives out there.
@linmac1686
Ай бұрын
This is pretty accurate as a Guyanese I say this.
@tamsinjames357
4 ай бұрын
Kia ora e hoa, Alex if you are ever in the Wellington region, please come visit or couch surf at our place! We are a Kiwi-Guyanese/Amerindian mixed family who have previously lived in the Rupununi. We've thoroughly enjoyed your videos. So weird but cool to hear your Kiwi accent in the Guyanese context. Kei te pai tō mahi.
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Wow there can’t be too many of you in the world! That’s really cool. Have you met many other Guyanese in NZ?
@ラーメンのボス
3 ай бұрын
Need a boyfriend?
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
@@ラーメンのボス you are not masculine enough for that task.
@Rationalmethod995
2 ай бұрын
I can't believe a video this good only has 25k views. I'm very impressed.
@wyndhl8309
2 ай бұрын
Because it's filled with inaccuracies, falsehood, and vilification of Burnham re. his support for Africans, many of whom suffered under Burnham's acts of patriotic nationalization.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
The video is tasteless ,extremely misleading and inaccurate, spoken from the mouth of a fork tongue devil 😈.
@artistik6465
4 ай бұрын
Im not sure that this video covers the importance of social class in Guyana. After slavery the Afro-Guyanese were well versed (and increasingly so post Emancipation) in most of the cultural values of the British - language, Christianity, Western education and manners. This meant they took powerful positions in the capital and urban centres - teachers, public servants, managerial posts, lawyers, etc. At one point Georgetown was essentially owned by middle and upper class Afro Guyanese - while the rural areas were the heartlands of the well to do agricultural Indians. Many Creole (Mixed) and Afro-Guyanese thus believed, as they were the major group brought in after whites historically to build the national economy - that they were the natural 'inheritors' of Guyana after the British. They couldnt understand how - purely due to population advantage - the Indians could usurp that power from them when they had been around for less time and not adapated to the 'cultural standards' that, at that time, defined what made you 'respectable' and part of elite Guyanese society. This is perhaps the greatest mental and social divide in Guyana. Most of Guyana's old dominant Creole and Afro-Guyanese bourgeoisie left the country during the 1970s. Essentially leaving behind the working class Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese 'new money', who were largely Hindu and of rural Guyanese extraction. It was a huge cultural shift for the nation. However the old bourgeoisie still considers that their kind has the best 'tools' to run Guyana and that part of the reason it struggled so long during - and with the various leaders LONG after Burnham - is that the 'right' social class opted to leave the country due to degraded standards...
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
What a fascinating comment, thanks for sharing!
@ishmaelbenn4002
Ай бұрын
Really, under president Linden Forbes Samson Burnham it was a dictatorship. Do you even know what a dictatorship is . For your information we are not AFRO GUYANESE or African descendants. We are aboriginal American Indians.
@kayvassiliou5746
Ай бұрын
Interesting. South Africa is also a vast continent and so many of us don't know the history of the smaller countries..
@sethbardsley5870
4 ай бұрын
Fantastic series, keep up the great work!!
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
@longierooo
4 ай бұрын
Bro finally! I’ve been waiting for this part 🐐
@manuelmendescorreia2075
2 ай бұрын
Great series of videos! Congratulations @Alex Rothman. A forgotten region and so fascinating
@raymondrodrigues3368
2 ай бұрын
Love your documentary on the political history of Guyana curing the Burnham Era and I admire the accuracy of your account 👌
@merchantcharles1954
2 ай бұрын
You need to get an education. Propaganda is truth for your pea brain
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
raymondrodrigues pea brain 😂
@kimchungm.s.6901
2 ай бұрын
This man knows nothing about Guyana’s history.
@Leroy175
2 ай бұрын
Exactly!
@capricerowland4850
2 ай бұрын
His story of Guyana not the accurate story of the country.
@khanibis
2 ай бұрын
Is it inaccurate because you didn't like it?
@Knowledge-n1o
2 ай бұрын
What are The main aspects he got wrong?
@linmac1686
Ай бұрын
He does, he is correct in a lot of ways. Burnham ruin the country. I remember the bans and food had to be smuggled in. Lots of intelligent and educated people left including my family.
@rew3103
4 ай бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you.
@eduardoprofet3970
4 ай бұрын
Great video!! You have really done your research. Do you live in Guyana?
@AlexRothman
4 ай бұрын
Nope, just traveled there!
@HenryThree
Ай бұрын
I wonder if, rather than being an act of solidarity, the practice of all the cars waiting until everybody is through the mud was developed as a measure to prevent conflict over who gets to be pulled out first.
@Viajesygeopolitica
4 ай бұрын
Amazing work as always
@delgadojonesable
2 ай бұрын
Who are you to tell us we are not the same,we are Africans, doesn't matter where we are globally ❤❤
@darknessreigns3038
2 ай бұрын
It seems to me like the dude still mad at Burnham for trying to connect with his African roots.
@Sid-gu5qk
2 ай бұрын
Genetically, yes, culturally, not as much, no offense, just facts brother.
@brucebrand3068
2 ай бұрын
No, wake up. You are either Black- Guyanese or African ,decide. Ask the Africans' (not from Guyana) if they think Black Guyanese are Africans.
@samanth.
2 ай бұрын
@@Sid-gu5qkwhat do mean culturally??? Africa has 54 different countries & over 3000 different ethnicities with different cultures, there's isn't one African culture
@Sid-gu5qk
2 ай бұрын
@@samanth. Are you also trying to say that Guyanese are culturally African? That's what my comment was about, notwithstanding the semantics of which part of Africa their ancestors came from.
@maniot
3 ай бұрын
Fantastic video! May the traveling Gods continue to watch over you!
@josipboban6976
4 ай бұрын
Great style of story teling
@ManasesKisero
Ай бұрын
I've just seen a house written "nyumba ya umoja" which is a Swahili word but the video is apparently talking of Guyana
@raymondrodrigues3368
2 ай бұрын
Guyana needs people to develop the hinterland regions it's is here the country potential lies not in region 4.
@verliesally2846
2 ай бұрын
Yes he may have been a dictator , but he didn’t hate the Indians as they hate us . He never demonstrated hatred. He had the Indians close to him , both the East Indians and Aboriginal Indians . We may not have like some of his policies, but he was right about a few things. People are still leaving with the current Gov. I haven’t seen many returned after Burnham departed.
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
EastIndians are departing 🛫 Guyana 🇬🇾 shores on a daily basis to North America and numerous Caribbean islands, that are governed by Black people’s for a better life.
@navidutube
Ай бұрын
Bravo! Nice videos, well explained....
@VishnuRamdin-xe7yd
2 ай бұрын
We may bad mought burnham but he was an educated british trained guyanese RIP
@StevenBiko1
2 ай бұрын
I am surprised 😲 an EastIndian is telling Patriotic BURNHAM to RIP .
@yahwehloveme6819
Ай бұрын
@@StevenBiko1 Not all of us Indian s are stupid!
@johnmason6645
Ай бұрын
@@StevenBiko1Burnham a black racist aparteidist ruler.
@blackinton2526
22 күн бұрын
@@johnmason6645 Like most Indians and especially Ghandi
@wendellanthony9801
2 ай бұрын
So y r they still leaving now
@gavinmelville2757
2 ай бұрын
So what's happening in Guyana now what is going on with this administration, the British and Americans did the same to Guyana what they also did to Africa and so many resourceful nations
@capricerowland4850
2 ай бұрын
Burnham said in a speech once” killing I is a waste, another Rasta will take I place” the lyrics from Bob Marley. That is exactly what we are seeing.
@georgewheeler7639
4 ай бұрын
Always such a fan of the humanity you manage to show in these videos.
@raymondmaughn9181
2 ай бұрын
America has always been in Guyana's politics. They are the one's responsible for the division in Guyana
@rickwaddy9443
2 ай бұрын
Yes and here they come again to divide and conquer.
@rickwaddy9443
2 ай бұрын
Yes and here they are again for part 2 to divide and conquer.
@suddie1215
2 ай бұрын
At 22:51 it was stated "it wasn't a bloodbath....I read one policeman was killed...I read five policemen were killed." This is easily verifiable information from sources like the National Archives; five policemen and two civilians died that day. My father was one of the five policemen; he was shot in the abdomen while climbing the fence of the Lethem police station to escape the attack on the station and bled to death on the floor of the Lethem abbatoir. I've had several conversations with the area nurse-midwife who tended to his injuries. But perhaps the resulting trauma to our family is just a figment of our imaginations and never really occurred.
@lazydictionary
Ай бұрын
In English, a bloodbath means many, many people dying. He wasn't ignoring the death of your father or others, he was saying it wasn't a massacre.
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