📜 A year of seismic change. A new constitution consolidated power under Forbes Burnham. On 13 June, historian and activist Walter Rodney was assassinated by a car bomb in Georgetown — a wound that still aches in the national consciousness. Music became a voice of resistance.

🍲 Curry and Roti — The Indo-Guyanese staple that crossed every ethnic boundary. By 1980 it was impossible to imagine Guyana without the fragrance of curry powder drifting from kitchens in Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo alike.