Guyana: On Being Authentic · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“I spent the first 19 years of my life in Guyana.  I have now lived away from Guyana for a longer time than I lived there.  Does that make me an inauthentic Guyanese?”:  Signifying Guyana responds to an argument that writers “who eventually opt to live and work abroad, cannot…lay claim to a truly Guyanese sensibility.”