A “Network” to federate Caribbean carnivals
On July 6, 2015, during the 35th edition of the famous Caribbean Festival – Fire Festival (Festival del Caribe-Fiesta del Fuego) which tooks place, like every year, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, 12 […]
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Alfonso Múnera : “ to know us through culture”
We discussed with the Carthaginian professor and diplomat Alfonso Múnera, at the moment Secretary General of the ACS* about it and other topics to know better the projects of the regional organization founded in 1994 […]
The “champêtres” : a traditional festival for the Haitian people
Many Haitians live an incredible experience in the country festivals. This kind of festivals whose tradition was passed down through generations is for these believers a really unmissable appointment each year. The “champêtres” or country festivals, […]
The Caribbean identity is not utopia
There is a common denominator in all the Caribbean peoples often difficult to understand. We do not speak only about the similarities of the geographical zone that shares our region of tropical climate, bathed by […]
Port-au-Prince celebrated its Kréyòl jazz
From January 23 to 30, 2016, Fondation Haïti Jazz organized the 10th edition of the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival with many guests from Europe, Africa, America and the Caribbean islands. Created in March 2007, the […]
Earl Lovelace was re-elected President of the Caribbean Writers Association
The Trinidadian world-famous writer, Earl Lovelace (81-years-old) was re-elected unanimously President of the Caribbean Writers Association at the 4th Congress of the Caribbean Writers Association. Created in 2008 at the initiative of Guadeloupe, the Caribbean […]
Joël des Rosiers : “Exile is a traumatic break”
During the 4th edition of the Congress of Caribbean Writers held from April 15th to 18th, 2015 in Guadeloupe with the theme “Travels, migrations and diaspora in the Caribbean literatures”, the Haitian writer and psychiatrist, […]
Congress of Caribbean Writers : themes, guests and prize-winners
1st edition (from November 25th to 28th, 2008) Theme : “Caribbean literature : Inventory, problems and prospects” Guest of honour : Derek Walcott, poet and playwright from St. Lucia (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992) […]
Young Haitian writers want the “S. Hessel Literary Prize”
Young Haitians writers regularly participate, since its creation, in the “Stéphane Hessel-RFI-TV5 Literary Prize”. To date, over a dozen have tried to win this award. Here are a few names of participants and their writings. […]
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 […]