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This novel centers on characters who are representatives of the arduous life of the Haitian peasantry and working class. The story takes place against a backdrop of abusive Haitian government officials under the presidency of Sténio Vincent…

Haitian Creole translation of Haitian Creole translation of “General Sun,
My Brother.”

"Diplomatic exchanges between Haitian executive officials have been commonplace since the nineteenth century. This photo captures one of several meetings between Dominican President Rafael Trujillo (in military attire) and Haitian president Sténio…

“Vodou … The Soul of the People,” an excerpt from Jacques Stéphen Alexis’ “The Musician Trees”
Callaloo: Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 2004
Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press
English translation by Carrol F. Coates
… The night was marked by…

In his analysis of the personified natural phenomena, Professor Carrol F. Coates explains that:
Merely to place these natural phenomena in a semiological category or “mythical” or “allegorical” characters is to miss the point. This is rather, pure…

The First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists took place in 1956 in Paris thanks to the vision and leadership of Senegalese Professor Alioune Diop, one of the founders of Présence Africaine, which was, and continues to be, a quarterly…

"I will not have a lot of time, unfortunately! To continue, from afar, my inalienable paternal duty … See my little daughter, I can give you something I know well, since I have desperately sought and found it, while continuing to seek it, this is…