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Eusi Kwayana is a Guyanese politician and activist who has been active in the country's politics since the 1950s. He is a founding member of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) and has served in various capacities in the government, including as Minister of Labour and Social Security. He is also a noted author and poet. Kwayana was born in Lusignan, British Guiana, on April 4, 1925. He attended the University of London, where he earned a degree in economics. After returning to British Guiana, he became involved in the trade union movement and was a founding member of the PPP in 1957. Kwayana served as Minister of Labour and Social Security from 1964 to 1966, and was a member of the National Assembly from 1964 to 1968. He was also a member of the PPP's Central Executive Committee from 1964 to 1968. Kwayana has written several books, including The Struggle for Freedom in Guyana (1966), The Guyanese People and the Struggle for Freedom (1970), and The Guyanese People and the Struggle for Freedom (1975). He has also written several poems, including "The Guyanese People" and "The Struggle for Freedom". Kwayana is currently 98 years old. He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

Popular As Sydney King
Occupation Politician, playwright
Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April, 1925
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Lusignan, British Guiana
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Who Is Eusi Kwayana's Wife?

His wife is Tchaiko Kwayana, 1971–2017 (her death)

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Eusi Kwayana Net Worth

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2002

In 2002, he retired from parliament and moved to California in the United States. As of March 2021, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

1974

Kwayana co-founded the African Society for Racial Equality (ASRE), and later, the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), which in 1974 became part of the Working People's Alliance (WPA). He was a member of the WPA's collective leadership and worked closely with the late Walter Rodney.

1968

Kwayana met his wife Tchaiko Kwayana (formerly Ann Cook), a pan-Africanist, and civil rights activist from Georgia, in 1968, as she was travelling from Brazil back to the US. They married in 1971 in Georgetown with Yoruba rites and was involved in Kwayana's organizational building.

1965

A production of his play The Promised Land, performed by a young cast from Buxton, won the "Best Play" Prize in the Youth Category at the British Guiana Drama Festival of 1965.

1956

He was born in Lusignan, British Guiana (now Guyana), and his family moved to Buxton when he was aged seven. He became a primary school teacher at the age of 15. In 1956 he founded and became principal of County High School, later renamed Republic Cooperative High School, in Buxton.

1940

During the 1940s he began to be politically active at the village level. Around 1947 (at that time known as Sydney King), he became a member of a small group of politicians, led by Cheddi Jagan, who formed the People's Progressive Party (PPP). After the PPP won in Guyana's first election under universal adult suffrage, Kwayana became Minister of Communication and Works. After the British government suspended the constitution and threw the PPP out of office, in October 1953, Kwayana and others were made political detainees for fear that they would cause civil unrest. He was an executive member of both the PPP and subsequently the People's National Congress (PNC).

1925

Eusi Kwayana, formerly Sydney King (born 4 April 1925), is a Guyanese politician. A cabinet minister in the People's Progressive Party (PPP) government of 1953, he was detained by the British Army in 1954. Later he left the PPP to form ASCRIA (African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa), a Pan-Africanist grassroots political group that, after a brief flirtation with the People's National Congress (PNC) of Forbes Burnham, fused into the Working People's Alliance (WPA). Kwayana is also a playwright.

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