The sounds of the tassa – GAlL

“The image of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Dr. Walter Rodney leading thousands of Guyanese, Indian and Black and other races, from Buxton to Kitty, to the beat of the sounds of the tassa and African drums, demanding free and fair elections and return to democracy, drove terror into the heart of the Burnham regime. This was the first mass popular demonstration of ethnic and political unity since the early 1950s.”

GAIL TEIXEIRA