IDPADA-G Statement in Observance of EMANCIPATION

As we mark 188 years since Emancipation, IDPADA-G calls on the African Guyanese community to ponder where we are today  in relation to our status when our ancestors walked through the plantation gates in 1838 to chants of freedom.  At that time, we could not go home to Africa – – the colonizers had brutally stripped us of our links to the motherland – no memory of name, language, family ties.  We were of this new land – we had no other home.

In this new home, at the dawn of Emancipation, we had a vision of owning the land, building communities, and taking our rightful place as the builders of this land.