Statecraft & Independence
Distinguished
Eusi Kwayana
1925 – 2026
Activist and co-founder of the Working People’s Alliance
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Guyana Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A teacher and political activist who worked across ethnic lines for most of the twentieth century.
Kwayana was a minister in the People's Progressive Party government of 1953 and was detained by the British the following year. He later founded the Pan-Africanist group ASCRIA, which became part of the Working People's Alliance.
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