Meridional des cayes biography of christopher

It covers the period , i.e., from the arrival of Christopher Jean-Claude/duc des Cayes (piguet chief) Jean-Claudisme , ,

Flécher attended Faculté des Sciences Humaines (FASCH) of the State University of Haiti (UEH) where he studied social communication.

In Le Cap he entered the service of a French naval o≈cer, for whom Chris- tophe worked as a bootblack and mess boy.

“The Declaration of Independence,” by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, originally from the British National Archives, CO /, ff, included in.

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In Le Cap he entered the service of a French naval o≈cer, for whom Chris- tophe worked as a bootblack and mess boy....

Finding Haiti on Vinyl

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In Jacmel, a sleepy beach town on Haiti’s southern coast, I hit pay dirt: In the archives of a local radio station, stuffed inside a gray metal locker, were hundreds of rare vinyl records, relics of a golden age of Haitian music.

I sorted and sifted for hours, previewed each record on my portable turntable, and then entered into lengthy and sometimes frustrating negotiations over cost. Among the stacks was a holy grail of Haitian music: the debut LP of les Loups Noirs—the Black Wolves—titled Jouent Pour Vous, recorded in 1970 when the group members were still in their early 20s.

Les Loups Noirs became a key part of a rich musical tradition that few people off the island or outside the Haitian diaspora know