“A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.”

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 53.

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Guyanese politician, activist and historian 1942–1980

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