Category Archives: Culture

Former President Aristide’s New Book: Philosophical Reflections for Mental Decolonization | Nouveau livre par l’ancien President Aristide: Poésies philosophiques pour la décolonisation mentale

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff, AHP | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Just out in Haitian bookstores: a new book by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide titled “Pwezi filosofik pou dekolonizasyon mantal” (Publisher: Henri Deschamps, 2012). It is the Creole version of “Philosophical Reflections for Mental Decolonization” (Publisher: Paradigm Press, 2011). (English | French)

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Constitution of the Republic of Haiti, 1987 | Constitution de la République d’Haïti, 1987

avatarPosted on by May 20, 2018

By National Constituent Assembly of Haiti, March 10, 1987. The Haitian people proclaim this constitution to ensure their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in conformity with the Act of Independence of 1804 and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1948. (French | English)

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Akasan, Haitian Cornmeal Drink for Sunday Morning

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Marianne Cesar, in A Taste of Haiti, Caribbean Living | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nearly every Latin America and Caribbean country boasts of a delicious cornmeal drink. Ours in Haiti is called Akasan. It is a legacy from our Taino ancestors.

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Lessons from the Indigenous on Promoting Plant Biodiversity

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Jan Salick, Missouri Botanical Garden | Staff, e! Science News. Mountains are considered sacred by both the Yanesha of the upper Peruvian Amazon and Tibetans of the Himalayas. They excel in promoting plant biodiversity. For example, the Yanesha grow over 200 varieties of cassava.

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Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango: Music and Dance

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | You Tube. Superb orchestral and dance performances of Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango are offered as a nod to the residents of Famatima and Chilecito whose protests have helped to save their lands and water from Canadian mining.

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Carnaval 2012: A Musical Indictment of Corruption in Haiti

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

Music by Don Kato, Boukman Eksperyans, Vwadezil | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nearly every Haitian Carnival 2012 song is an indictment of the current state of affairs: corruption, cholera, rapes, MINUSTAH. We’re not partying to forget but to remember. (songs in Kreyol)

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Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Richard Dowden, African Arguments | Haiti Chery. “The model for Somalia is Switzerland…. Strong centralised states are the legacy of colonial rulers and unsurprisingly the inheritor governments have kept it that way.” – Richard Dowden.

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Keiko Fukuda, Age 98, 1 of 16 Ever and 1st Woman to Earn Judo 10th-Degree Black Belt

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Staff, Tehran Times | You Tube | Haiti Chery. Keiko Fukuda has become, at age 98, the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt—the highest rank in the martial art and combat sport Judo and an honor that only 16 people have ever achieved.

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Jane Goodall: Primatologist, Activist

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

Interview of Jane Goodall with Bret Love, Green Global Travel | Trailer for “Jane’s Journey,” YouTube. Jane Goodall retired from her studies as a primatologist 20 years ago and has since worked as a full-time activist. Her Institute’s TACARE microlending program promotes environmentally sustainable projects. Her Roots and Shoots program motivates children.

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Ali Farka Toure Performs Amandrai, a Love Song, Live at Segou Festival

avatarPosted on by March 9, 2019

By Ali Farka Toure | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Ali Farka Toure was a fantastic singer-composer-musician and also an exceptionally well-grounded individual who, after touring the U.S. and Europe to great acclaim, returned to his village in Timbuktu, Mali, to work as a fruit and rice farmer. Later he served as the Mayor of the Niafunke region where his projects included malaria eradication and tree planting.

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Frederico Garcia Lorca, Three Poems: Ditty of First Desire, Debussy, Fare Well | Frederico Garcia Lorca, tres poemas: Cancioncilla del primer beso, Debussy, El balcón

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Frederico Garcia Lorca, Casa Poema, Kempis, Everything2 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Frederico García Lorca, one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the Spanish language, became Franco’s most famous victim at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca’s remains might be in one of the unmarked graves that Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered exhumed as part of his probe into Spain’s fascist era. (English | Spanish)

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Etta James: My Funny Valentine | The Sky Is Crying

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

Etta James, You Tube (courtesy of Yvonne Koendeerman and Caela Harlot) | Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Etta could dig into a 12-bar blues as well as she could stretch the phrases of a jazz ballad. Thank you, Etta. So glad you were here. You are missed.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

avatarPosted on by March 22, 2020

By Martin Luther King Jr, In: Why We Can’t Wait (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1963) | Charles Moore, Photos | Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, Statement by Clergymen | Assembled by Haiti Chery. “Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” – MLK

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