Here is part 4 of our INNERviews with scholars who contributed to Meridian‘s Pawòl Fanm Sou Douz Janvye, edited by Dr. Gina A. Ulysse. Other contributors include: photographer Regine “Gigi” Romain, writer Katia D. Ulysse, professors Nadeve Menard, Myriam Chancy, and Mark Schuller. Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of the West Indies, [...]
The first of three Ayiti Fasafas (Haiti Face to Face) concerts, celebrating Haitian traditional singing, drumming and dance was presented in a “Rasanble: Come Together” in Brooklyn recently. The next will be Friday, June 22, 7:00 p.m., with “Rele Ounto: Remembering the Life and Legacy of Frisner Austin,” the master drummer, teacher and transmitter of [...]
Nadève Ménard was born in Brooklyn, NY. Her family moved to Haiti in 1987, when she was 11 years old. She went to high school in Haiti, then left to attend college in Baltimore and grad school in Philadelphia. She has lived briefly in Paris and Trinidad, but Haiti has been home now for a long time. Since [...]
I love water. I find solace in it, but I have a healthy fear of its power to house our ancestors. I happen to have been born and raised in Haiti, a country with double of everything: language, religion, class, and economy; everything mirrors something else, although not always in a graphic repetition. It would [...]