The All African Guyanese Council was resuscitated last Sunday at a meeting held at the Glow International Hotel in Kitty.
More than fourteen African-centric organisations attended the meeting.
According to a press release from the Council, during its earlier existence in the 1980’s, the All African Guyanese Council was concerned with the teaching of African history and the promotion and observance of African cultural events. However, at the gathering last Sunday participants expressed the need to re-organise the body so that the challenges which now faced the African community in Guyana could be addressed from positions of strength and unity. The release said a resolution to this effect was adopted at that forum and some guidelines for the council’s future were discussed.
Those elected to serve on the council were: President, Lennox King, Secretary, Jonathan Adams, Treasurer, Olarisa Mwanza and Public Relations Officer, Ayodele Olutunde.
The release said that persons addressing the affairs of women in the council were Sister Clementine Marshall, Angela Bascombe and Asabi Adaeza. Artist, Phillip Moore offered advice to the new council, while the Kingdom of the Descendants of Emancipated Africans in Guyana pledged its support and co-operation to the council, the release added.