Suriname Indigenous People’s Day is annually observed on August 9. It’s a public holiday coinciding with the U.N.’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The holiday celebrates indigenous people, who are the soul of Suriname, and their identity. It remembers the centuries of oppression, slavery, and forced assimilation the indigenous people went through and aims to make things right.
Big Forehead Day
Big Forehead Day is celebrated on August 3. It raises a toast to well-endowed foreheads, deemed unattractive and shamed for far too long. The holiday aims to reclaim the marvelous big, bold, and beautiful forehead and help people begin to love what they have.
Emancipation Day (Guyana)
Emancipation Day in Guyana is annually observed on August 1. It marks the abolition of slavery in Guyana and commemorates the end of years of dehumanization and the resurgence of the African spirit. The holiday is significant not just as a calendar event but as a new lease of life for the Guyanese nation as we know it.