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Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Citadel, 1974

after a mural in port-au-prince by alexandre was from the pic of le cap where the citadel sits the arawaks wait the fleshes of their headdress are stairs up the montagne the rings of the palm trees are bells up the montagne toussaint is a zemi he stares from the flesh of stone the white […]

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Haiti v Argentina, Munich, Germany, 6:03 PM, June 23rd 1974

Haiti one, Italy three. Haiti nil, Poland seven. Haiti one, Argentina four. With three losses from three matches Haiti’s trip to the X World Cup Finals, in West Germany, 1974, was hardly a success. Yet the losses are somewhat misleading. Even with that seven-nil drubbing at the hands of an imperious Poland side (they scored […]

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