These posts hosts the books from the eBelizeLibrary collection on Access501.
Preamble: This day October 12, 1969, we, the officers of the Peoples Action Committee (PAC) and the United Black Association for Development (UBAD) come together to formulate a single historical document of our beliefs, objectives and programs which will give birth to one national movement of liberation. Download Book
The Rockville Declaration Read More »
Why? because women are omitted, erased, ignored, and diminished from our narratives because still the teaching of african and maya OURstories must become foundation learning because the society did not start to melt yesterday because we must search for the truth about how we resist, revolt and reform ourselves because bembe is complicated… it is
A country is defined by its culture. One practical method to decode a nation’s culture is by looking at its art. The term “Art’ encompasses all the arts: visual, music, dramatic, dance and literary. Once common denominator, no matter what country anywhere in the world, is the historical reverence – not merely significance- reverence, each
Belize A Moment of Change Read More »
conversations for a community record Download Book
Conversations on Decolonization Read More »
As an artist conceived on the crest of a cultural century in an old capital (Belize City), cultivated on crumbling colonial architecture, I often find myself lucky to be armed with an unsteady hand and an often screaming cultural membrane. You see artists are not 9 to 5’s, not assembly lines, not Made in America,
The questions I am raising include – what was the community setting that gave birth to such a great person? What were some of the incubating factors that nourished the artistic talents of Andy? How did his immediate family – mother, father, and assorted relatives – give form to the potential in the child Andy
Be forewarned. If you are expecting to get your lessons in living from celebrities, newsmakers and other persons of high places and positions, this book is not for you. The lessons in living you will find in this book will come to you from ordinary persons like most of us, but persons of exemplary qualities
I have always been in love with Sarteneja. Growing up as a child and into my teenage years I could always remember being so proud of my village, the place I call home. I haven’t been able to always live there but I had never abandoned it. Perhaps it’s because my parents have been in
Rowan is a small boy who is blind with a big plan. He wanted to help The BCVI’s (Belize Council for the Visually Impaired) summer camp where children who are blind and visually impaired from all over Belize, come together to learn grow and have fun. Download Book
This book was developed by the UBAD Educational Foundation + The Image Factory Art Foundation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of what we are calling the 1919 Revolution, when Black Ex-Servicemen and Belize townspeople rose up in rebellion on 22nd and 23rd of July, 1919 to protest racism, lack of land, jobs and inequality. It
