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.

Books
- John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge, 2011
- John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008
- Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005
- Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011
- McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribbean, 2010
- English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon, 1604-1668, James A. Williamson, 1923

00:00 Intro
00:59 British Guiana
02:20 Independence
04:32 A Turn to Socialism
07:22 Georgetown to Linden
09:00 Linden to Kurupukari
10:42 Michelle's Island
16:40 Road to Rupununi
19:15 Seeds of Discontent
19:45 Border Disputes
22:23 Rebellion
24:48 Jonestown
29:51 The End of Burnham
34:05 Annai