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Sculpture vaudou fon, Bénin
Sculpture vaudou fon, Bénin, Bois, pierre, fer, terre cuite et patine sacrificielle, 57 x 56 x 35 cm, Collection Anne et Jacques Kerchache, Photo © Yuji Ono, Exposition Vaudou, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 5 avril › 25 sept. 2011
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Africa and Haiti
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain vient de mourir en laissant une oeuvre considérable sur la littérature orale africaine et haïtienne. Ayant vécu loin des rumeurs de la politique haïtienne, elle est restée dans l’ombre pour nombre d’ethnologues d’Haïti, mais tous reconnaissent une grande dette à son égard : c’est elle qui a fourni une base indispensable et unique [...]
Joseph-Anténor Firmin
Certainly, the most important champion of Haiti’s modernist internationalism in the nineteenth century is the Haitian essayist Antenor Firmin. No other intellectual seemed so able to follow through on the revolutionary universalism of Haiti’s war of independence.
J. Michael Dash, The Disappearing Island: Haiti, History, and the Hemisphere (April 2004).
We can now draw a line from [...]
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François Duvalier, Haiti and the Republic of Biafra
The vocation of the first independent Negro Republic in the world to secure everywhere the defence of the prestige and dignity of our race, its conditions of an extra-continental state added to the fact that it does not seek any personal advantage, put Haiti in a privileged position to cause the voice of right, wisdom [...]
Toussaint L’Ouverture: Allada, Benin
Eileen McNamara, “Statue of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Founder of Haiti,” (1997-1998; Allada, Benin).
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. General Library System of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Haiti: Présence Africaine Éditions, 25 bis, rue des écoles, Paris, France, June 24, 2010
Présence Africaine Éditions
Haiti: Africa
Haiti, where negritude rises to its feet for the first time and says that it has believed in its own humanity.
Aimé Cesairé quoted in Richard A. Long, “Negritude,” Black World/Negro Digest (May 1969)
The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics