Eusi Kwayana, Sage of Buxton, dies at 101

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Eusi Kwayana, the Guyanese activist long known as the Sage of Buxton, has died at 101. His family said he passed away on Saturday at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Kwayana, born Sydney King, spent a lifetime in Guyana's political struggles as an organizer and educator. He was a founding member of the Working People's Alliance, the movement he helped build alongside Walter Rodney. His interests ran from anticolonial politics to Pan-African thought, and he wrote about them for decades. He entered politics in the early party era of British Guiana and stayed a moral voice well past independence. As word spread, figures across Guyana's political spectrum paid tribute to a man whose writings still circulate among researchers today.

…WPA founder leaves enduring legacy of political activism, scholarship and Pan-Africanism (Kaieteur News) – Eusi Kwayana, the veteran Guyanese political activist, educator, historian and founding member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), died on Saturday at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, aged 101. He has left behind a political and intellectual legacy that spans […] The post Eusi Kwayana, Sage of Buxton, dies at 101 appeared first on Kaieteur News .

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