Category: English
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A President’s corpse and the FBI’s Lamayòt
“There is an element of Haitian carnival that has made its way into political speech: a lamayòt is a mysterious box whose contents are known only to its owner, and which others can see only after they have paid some kind of price. In politics, lamayòt can refer to, among other things, trickery, a sleight…
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25 & 26 Jiyè se Jou Fidelite: Manman m, Papa Dessalines & Kiba
25 JIYÈ SE FÈT ANPERÈ JACQUES PREMYE – VIV PAPA DESSALINES! Dessalines, se ou ki ban n solèy Ki ban n lalin Ou ki ban n sè, frè n Manman, papa n, pitit nou(Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Mèsi Papa Dessalines!, Djakout, 1953) Se sou non Jacques Premye, Dessalines resevwa tit Anperè, 8 Oktòb 1804. Atik 27, Dispozisyon…
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Martin Luther King and the Man on the Road to Cite Soleil, Haiti
The cry is always the same “we want to be free”. «The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya: Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee–the cry is always the same–“We want to be free”». Dr.…
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Pèp Ayisyen nou mande ou padon pou trayizon 2004 la
Jodi a, 1 Fevriye 2025, nou menm pitit fi ak pitit gason Ayiti, nou vin mande nasyon nou an padon daprèzavwa nou te siyen “Déclaration de principe sur le Bicentenaire“ ki pote dat 29 Septanm 2003 a. Nan dokiman sila a nou te sèmante nou pap selebre bisantnè Ayiti; Okontrè, nou te envite ni konpatriyòt…