Guyana’s landscape, especially its vast, undeveloped interior, has long invited fantasies of riches and peopling, from Raleigh’s conquistador visions of it as “El Dorado,” or the realm of gold, to an abortive proposal to resettle Jews there during World War II. It also had a specific hold on the African-American imagination that seems still to live—a black radical tradition of investing Guyana with the glittery allure of an imagined homeland, one that Jim Jones exploited to build his promised land gone horribly awry.
Source : The Jonestown We Don’t Know
