Afro-Guyanese
Adjective
Meaning
Afro-Guyanese (not comparable)
Guyanese of African origin
Examples
Cheddi Jagan of the PPP was elected and sworn in as President on October 9, 1992, reversing the monopoly Afro-Guyanese traditionally had over Guyanese politics.
A few Indo-Guyanese were co-opted into the PNC, but the ruling party was unquestionably the embodiment of the Afro-Guyanese political will.
Cheddi Jagan and Burnham failed to win seats, but Burnham's campaign made a favorable impression on many Afro-Guyanese citizens.
Burnham's appeals to race proved highly successful in bridging the schism that divided the Afro-Guyanese along class lines.
By the late 1880s, pressure from the new Afro-Guyanese middle class was building for constitutional reform.
Establishing small settlements provided the new Afro-Guyanese communities an opportunity to grow and sell food, an extension of a practice under which slaves had been allowed to keep the money that came from the sale of any surplus produce.