Ol Higue Ol’ woman wid de wrinkled skin, Leh de ol’ higue wuk begin. ... it is the sum total of its writers and their art: people, society, political base and human experience.

She chooses the night of Guyana’s first Independence Day to take on the Ol’ Higue, just as the country's white colonists are leaving, after generations of extraction and exploitation. Compellingly, as ...