Why is the Hanafi school predominant among Muslims in Guyana

Answer

The Hanafi school is the one predominantly taught and practised in Guyana, though a handful of Shafi'i shaykhs and unaffiliated groups also exist. There are primarily two reasons for this: (1) it was the school that historically survived -- while some of the Africans brought to Guyana under colonial rule were Muslims (most likely of Maliki ancestry), that heritage did not survive post-colonialism, whereas the Islamic heritage of the Indian indentured labourers, who were predominantly Hanafi, did; (2) the institutions where most local teachers studied are Hanafi in fiqh, so a larger share of the country's teaching knowledge-base is rooted in that school, making it easier to access and disseminate. *And Allah knows best.*