Cuffy, Kofi Badu: A bold symbol of resistance against slavery, by Gift Luckson Cuffy, also known as Kofi Badu was an African Akan man who was a slave in the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. In 1763, he led a major slave revolt of around 5,000 slaves against the Dutch. The slave revolt was eventually suppressed and Cuffy committed suicide. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana. Origin Cuffy was born in the 18th century in what is now southern Ghana. At some point, he was captured and sent across...