Born in Guyana, Anjani was forced to leave school at the age of thirteen. Her mother had become ill and so being the eldest daughter the responsibility of taking care of the house hold landed on her. A year later her mother recovered and Anjani began lessons at the local seamstress.


By age sixteen she was married to a cane cutter by means of an arranged marriage. A month after her marriage she was taken to work on the rice field of her in-laws. It is said that on her first day on the filed she kept busy by playing in the mud and making mud toys. This life was new to her but obviously this did not please her mother in law.

It was while working for her in-laws that she and her husband were offered the opportunity to purchase a place of their own. They were young and had no money so Anjani we to her father's home to borrow the money; with $300 from her father and $200 from her mother she was on her way to being woman of her own home and manager of her own farm.  The couple were also able to acquire a loan, and soon moved into their first home.

She soon had to chose between buying furnishings for her home or extending her business...she bought two cows.  Anjani would raise and sell more than one hundred head of cattle, and plant approximately eight acres of land.


Anjani Singh was wife, business woman, and the mother of six children.


See: "Blaze a Fire- Significant Contributions of Caribbean Women". Nesha Z Haniff (1988)