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Sofia Lapique,Eva Romero,Mafe
Zumaran,Luana Marton,Martin
Riesgo
British Guiana
flag were .
 Born: 21 June 1949 (age 65) British Guiana
 Occupation: playwright, poet and children’s
writer
 Language: English
 Nationality: Guyanese
 Ethnicity: Afro-Guyanese
 Citizenship: Jamaican
 The recession of 1949 was a downturn in the
United States lasting for 11 months. According
to the National Bureau of Economic Research,
the recession began in November 1948 and
lasted until October 1949. During this
recession, the Gross Domestic Product of the
United States fell 1.7 percent and the
unemployment rate reached its peak for the
cycle of 7.9 percent.
 He loved to listen to cricket commentary on the
radio and began making up his own
commentaries. Which led him to love language.
 He went on to study English, French and Latin
at A-level.
 He started doing his own poems in sixth-form.
 He left school. (18 years old)
 He taught the languages he had studied and
worked in a local library.
 He was also a sub-editor and feature writer for
the Guyana Sunday Chronicle, publishing two
books while still in Guyana.
 In 1967 the continued presence of American
troops increased further and a total of 475,000
were serving in Vietnam and the peace rallies
were multiplying as the number of protesters
against the war increased.
 Afro-Guyanese are people that are civilians
of Guyana of Sub-Saharan African descent
(formerly, as the Afro-Guianese they were the
inhabitants forcibly brought as slaves to work
on the sugar plantations of British Guiana).
Guyana, that is next to
Venezuela,Brazil and
Suriame
John Agard

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John Agard

  • 1. Sofia Lapique,Eva Romero,Mafe Zumaran,Luana Marton,Martin Riesgo British Guiana flag were .
  • 2.  Born: 21 June 1949 (age 65) British Guiana  Occupation: playwright, poet and children’s writer  Language: English  Nationality: Guyanese  Ethnicity: Afro-Guyanese  Citizenship: Jamaican
  • 3.  The recession of 1949 was a downturn in the United States lasting for 11 months. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession began in November 1948 and lasted until October 1949. During this recession, the Gross Domestic Product of the United States fell 1.7 percent and the unemployment rate reached its peak for the cycle of 7.9 percent.
  • 4.  He loved to listen to cricket commentary on the radio and began making up his own commentaries. Which led him to love language.  He went on to study English, French and Latin at A-level.  He started doing his own poems in sixth-form.
  • 5.  He left school. (18 years old)  He taught the languages he had studied and worked in a local library.  He was also a sub-editor and feature writer for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle, publishing two books while still in Guyana.
  • 6.  In 1967 the continued presence of American troops increased further and a total of 475,000 were serving in Vietnam and the peace rallies were multiplying as the number of protesters against the war increased.
  • 7.  Afro-Guyanese are people that are civilians of Guyana of Sub-Saharan African descent (formerly, as the Afro-Guianese they were the inhabitants forcibly brought as slaves to work on the sugar plantations of British Guiana).
  • 8. Guyana, that is next to Venezuela,Brazil and Suriame