by Dr. Yveline Alexis | Aug 11, 2023 | C Series
What are our origins? Whether it was from civil rights activist Ella Baker who would ask fellow citizens: ‘Where do your people come from?’ Or our Ayiti community who still ask, ‘What’s your family’s name and where in Ayiti are you and they from?’ These rooting...
by Dr. Yveline Alexis | Jul 30, 2023 | A to Z series, B Series
Borders have always been blurry in Hispaniola. Foreign Spain and France split the island into two entities into what we know as colonial Santo Domingo and Saint-Domingue. Several treaties beyond the infamous Treaty of Ryswick divided Hispaniola into the inequitable,...
by Dr. Yveline Alexis | Jul 19, 2023 | A Series, A to Z series
Africa in Ayiti Often folks describe Ayiti as the most African place in the Caribbean. Why? Our melanin, speech acts like our language Kreyòl and expressions that are similar to the Igbo language, religious cultures like Vodou(n), drums and musical style, and...
