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Jafrikayiti

Jafrikayiti (Jean Saint-Vil) is author of:
  1. LAFIMEN: Listwa Pèp Ayisyen Depi Nan Ginen (CD 1 – 4), audio recordings on the history of the Haitian People.
  2. Viv Bondye ! Aba Relijyon!,  book (essay) on spirituality and the Afro-Haitian experience with Christianity.

Co-founder of two self-help organizations AKASAN (Ayisyen ki ap soutni Ayisyen nètalkole) and Jaku Konbit which follow the principles popularized by Marcus Garvey, he is also an artist-activist immersed in the Global Peace and Social Justice movement.

He hosts or co-hosts  several weekly radio programs such as Bouyon-Rasin at the University of Ottawa’s C.H.U.O 89.1 F.M,  Rendez-vous Haitien at Carleton University’s C.K.C.U 93.1 F.M, Chèche pa peche and Pawòl pou chèche chimen on www.radiokajou.com.

Featured political analyst on Canadian as well as international media, a University of Waterloo (Hon. B.Sc., Biology) graduate and Canadian Civil Servant, Jafrikayiti lives in Ottawa-Gatineau but returns to Haiti on a regular basis.

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AUTHOR

Read Jafrikayiti’s English language essays, under Blog.

Read, listen to or view excerpts from his Haitian Kreyòl works under Products

Activist
ACTIVIST

For the emergence of a new era of justice-based global peace and genuine human sisterhood/brotherhood.

Visual-Artist
VISUAL ARTIST

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How I wish when I was growing up, I had books that told me about the true
story of my people, of their civilizations, inventions, struggles, victories.

Books in which the first picture I saw resembled me, instead of the Columbus face that starred curiously back at me, on the very first page of “our” Histoire d’Haiti by Frères de l’instruction chrétienne.

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Nou pa p obeyi

Nou mande tout pitit Lafrik, espesyalman militè yo, keseswa lame nasyonal kote yo anwole aktyèlman, pou yo refize lòd atake Ayiti, Nijè, Mali, Boukina Faso…tout peyi
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No Need to Invade Haiti: Arrest Bigio and Martelly in Florida

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Reflections of a Retired Canadian Public Servant

Warning: might include expressions of gratefulness and praise for the Canadian Science and Technology System. In a few days, I will begin official retirement from the
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San zansèt nou yo ki te koule

Konpatriyòt, onè!  Jodi a, Dimanch 30 Jiyè 2023, mwen voye salitasyon espesyal pou Kaptenn Nérilia Mondésir ak tout ekip Grenadye pa pè chay nou yo k
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Who supports foreign invasion of Haiti, why?

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What is urgent and necessary in Haiti

The author asks CARICOM member states to support the Haitian people in their struggle for sovereignty. Ottawa, June 6, 2023 Dear Leaders of CARICOM, I greet
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