Kassav: Doctor Zouk
Drums roll. A powerful voice shouts through the microphone: “Zzet veni pou” What did you come for? And the whole place seems to...
Aimé Césaire: Reaching For Freedom
Aimé Césaire, the mayor of Fort-de-France in Martinique, is 81 years old. And he still shows up for work every day. His office, on the...
Jean-Jacques Fougère-Audubon: The Bird Man
Think of birds, and you think of Audubon. But who was he? Caroline Popovic finds out The founders of the Audubon Society named their august...
The Fire This Time
Si ou gen youn sous k ap ba-w dlo, ou pa koupe pye-bwa kot. “If you have a stream that gives you water,” runs the Haitian proverb,...
The Birth of Negritude
When does a piece of writing become a classic? Perhaps never more definitively so than when it appears on Oxford University’s syllabus....
The Nightmare Republic
Few novels have captured the atmosphere of a place quite as powerfully as Graham Greene’s The Comedians (1966). The place in question is...
Raoul Peck: A Vision of His Own
One of the landmark moments in Caribbean cinema took place in Martinique in 1988. The occasion was the first Images Caraïbes Film...
