CaRiMi: hip hop from Haiti
Haitian trio CaRiMi burst onto the music scene in the United States in 2001 with their hip-hop kompa sounds. The trio of Mickael Guirand,...
Wyclef Jean: Haitian sensation
He may be a multi-millionaire hip hop star, but soaring high on the international popularity scale has not made Wyclef Jean forget his...
Katherine Dunham: voodoo priestess from Illinois
It is hard to picture a more desolate urban landscape than the slum quarter of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince known as Martissant. The...
Jean-Ralph Thurin: high fashion from Haiti
There never seemed any doubt about what path Jean-Ralph Thurin’s career would take. This past November, Thurin formally launched his...
À la recherche: Monsieur Toussaint by Edouard Glissant
High in the picturesque mountains of the Jura, not far from France’s border with Switzerland, stands the Fort de Joux. Perched on a...
Deadly Frontier: Edwidge Danticat’s “The Farming of Bones”
As I write this, they’re still pulling bodies out of what used to be villages along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic....
Edwidge Danticat: finding her way home
I have never met Edwidge Danticat in person. Until I interviewed her a few months ago, any knowledge I had of her came from her fiction,...
Voodoo pig
Even in my most immodest moments, I’d never claim to be brave. A mere mouse in the house can put me to flight; cockroaches make me...
