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To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at or call x. For more information on self-publishing or marketing with Xlibris, visit http: To receive a free publishing guide, please call It is obvious that not all the details of the periods described are included, but the aim of the author is to build an awareness among young Guyanese in particular, of the rich heritage of the people of Guyana. It is hoped, too, that The Guyana Story will encourage readers to do further research into various aspects of Guyanese history.
By knowing about our past, we will be in a better position to understand and appreciate the present. Available Online Xlibris - Amazon. Very little is known of Amerindian history in Guyana before the arrival of European settlers in the early seventeenth century and, actually, no written form of their languages existed until about seventy years ago.
Indeed, much of the history of the Amerindians people is based on oral traditions which are not quite clear because the periods when important events occurred are difficult to place. Still, native oral traditions are very rich in folk stories of the ancestral heroes and heroines of these indigenous people. One day Anansi was walking in the forest and his foot kicked over a pot which was just lying on the ground.
Immediately the pot begin to cook up a delicious dinner of chicken and rice and peas.
The smell nearly kill Anansi who was very hungry. Him eat an eat till him belly nearly burst. You mus never wash me.
Leave me same way you find me. So Anansi turn down the pot and hide it under some leaves and went home with a big bellyful. When he reached home his wife and children eagerly asked him if he had brought any food. Next day Anansi returned to where he had found the pot.
Anansi had a feast. Everyday Anansi eat him belly full but him never share the secret with him family.
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However, Anansi wife soon begin to notice that her husband seem to be getting quite round, and him was looking very well-fed in the midst of the famine. He always generously declined to eat anything at home.
In some cases he is regarded as wise, but he can be greedy, cunning, gluttonous, stupid and dishonest. Nansi, the starring character in all the stories, is also popularly known as Anansi The stories are now no longer exclusive to people of West African ancestry, since people of all ethnic origins in the these countries regard Nansi as their folk hero as well. Interestingly, all stories told at these informal community gatherings are regarded as Nansi stories even though Nansi may not be a character in any of them. As soon as he left, Mrs Anansi wasted no time. The starring character in all of them is Nansi whose exploits form part of the folklore of these countries.
So one day she decided to follow him when he left the home. Anansi sit down and eat it all off, licked his lips and turned down the pot and covered it over with leaves.
As soon as he left, Mrs Anansi wasted no time. The children were overjoyed as the food bubbled up in the pot - ackee and saltfish, dumpling and yam and coco, fry chicken! Food them never see for a very long time. Them eat an eat until there was nothing left.