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E. R. Braithwaite: The man and his work - Guyana Chronicle

Braithwaite was appointed as the president of the UN governing council and heard firsthand accounts of the suffering caused by apartheid from witnesses. In , a friend in Guyana sent him a clipping from the South African Official Gazette announcing that the ban on Braithwaite’s ‘To Sir, With Love’ book had been lifted.

E. R. Braithwaite, author of "To Sir, With Love" - Guyana ...

E.R. Braithwaite was born J, in the South American colony of British Guiana (now Guyana). As a black man growing up under British rule, he endured prejudice, but it didn’t keep him from getting an education.

E.R. Braithwaite: The Late-Blooming Author of “To Sir, With ...

He was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on J; he attended St. Ambrose Primary School in Alberttown, before moving on to Queen’s College. And in the book, ‘To Sir with Love’, he spoke highly of Queen’s College; how school was interesting, and it was an accomplishment to learn. How the teachers had a love for teaching, and it showed.

E. R. BRAITHWAITE – Still We Rise

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born J) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana.

In Braithwaite visited South Africa when its government lifted the ban on his books. He was granted a visa to the country as an “honorary white” which gave him far more privileges than allowed for the indigenous Black majority in that nation.

The story of Braithwaite, an African-Guyanese living in Britain, having fought in World War II as a pilot alongside his white colleagues, was to discover on his return to civilian life such experience did not translate to him being considered equal in the socio-economic order.