Maryse Condé said emotional goodbyes to her island
Because of a stroke a few years ago, the novelist Maryse Condé, known for her dynamism, can no longer move like before. After having worked and traveled a lot all over the world, the novelist […]
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Gwoka, “Intangible cultural Heritage of Humanity”
On November 26, 2014, Gwoka – “music, song, dance and cultural practices representative of the Guadeloupean identity” – was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Some people feel proud and other […]
The long march of gwoka for recognition
In recent years, gwoka has got over obstacles but it was not always this way. Indeed, during slavery, the article 16 of the Edict of Louis XIV, King of France, in March 1685, known as […]
Gwoka : music, song and dance in Guadeloupe
Gwoka is born from the meeting of slaves from different African tribes. When they arrived in the Caribbean, they did not speak the same language, they did not have the same customs but they all […]
The Caribbean, an extraordinary literary wealth
From April 15th to 18th, 2015 was held in Guadeloupe the 4th “Congress of Caribbean Writers” in the presence of fifty authors from 14 Caribbean islands and 5 Latin American countries. An opportunity to highlight […]
Évelyne CHAVILLE (Editor-in-chief in Guadeloupe)
Évelyne Chaville is a journalist from Guadeloupe and founder of the website, Kariculture.net. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Foreign Languages, (Gerville-Réache High School in Basse-Terre), she studied Spanish (University of Antilles-Guiana, Pole […]