Learn to edit Wikipedia: Afrocrowd's new Training Videos are here

Check out Afrocrowd's new training video on our YouTube page. It's also broken down in smaller modules, including an intro to Afrocrowd and to what Wikipedia is.


We put the basics of wikipedia editing in there (including adding images and citations) but we are most excited about all the stuff that makes Afrocrowd Afrocrowd: making full use of the availability of the languages of the African diaspora, including Haitian Creole, and embarking on the movement's journey to meet its goal of knowledge equity by 2030, which means integration of oral knowledge into the largest online encyclopedia.






Enjoy the videos but also make sure to join Afrocrowd in-person meetups wherever you are, whether in New York, London, Paris or Spain. (Let me know if you want to me added to our monthly newsletter to receive dates and/or check out our website, Twitter and Facebook often.)

As to the future of the podcast, stay tuned, as I continue to ponder its continuation.

Love you all!


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Legacy of 1804 on Haitian Creole Symposium Part 3 #LOF1804 #Haiti

Join me as I play and discuss clips from Haitian Creole Symposium 2015 which took place at Brooklyn College on October 31, 2015---this is a third installment. The clips will be in Kreyòl but I will provide essential translations. Specifically, we will listen to Yves Raymond's FULL talk about outstanding issues in the Kreyòl spelling convention of 1980.

Panelists included Syto Cavé, Prof. Luna Gourgue, Prof. Hugues Saint-Fort and Menes Déjoie, Yves Raymond among many others.

Themes:

The Haitian Creole Academy, what is it?

Theater as a teaching tool for instruction in Haitian Creole

The forthcoming Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College
Listen live or archived at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/12/19/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole-symposium-part-3-lof1804. Call in to listen or participate at

(714) 242-6119.

You can listen to part 1 in which we played talks by Prof. Luna Gourgue, E.D. of Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen  about the role and mission of the Haitian Creole Academy and  Menes Déjoie on the topic: "What has theater ever done for the Haitian people?": http://www.kiskeacity.com/2015/12/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole.html. Listen to part 2: http://www.kiskeacity.com/2015/12/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole.html. 
 
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LIVE TWEET RECAP:

Legacy of 1804 on Haitian Creole Symposium Part 2 #LOF1804

Join me for as I play and discuss clips from Haitian Creole Symposium 2015 which took place at Brooklyn College on October 31, 2015--- for the second time. The clips will be in Kreyòl but she will provide essential translations.

Panelists included Syto Cavé, Prof. Luna Gourgue, Prof. Hugues Saint-Fort and Menes Déjoie among many others.

Themes:

The Haitian Creole Academy, what is it?

Theater as a teaching tool for instruction in Haitian Creole

Listen live or archived at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/12/12/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole-symposium-part-2-lof1804. Call in to listen or participate at

(714) 242-6119.

You can listen to part 1 in which we played talks by Prof. Luna Gourgue, E.D. of Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen  about the role and mission of the Haitian Creole Academy and  Menes Déjoie on the topic: "What has theater ever done for the Haitian people?": http://www.kiskeacity.com/2015/12/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole.html.
 
Would you like to host a show on a topic of your choice? Drop me a line about your idea and desired date.


UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO


Live tweet RECAP:

Legacy of 1804 on Haitian Creole Symposium at Brooklyn College #lof1804

Join me as I play and discuss clips from Haitian Creole Symposium 2015 which took place at Brooklyn College on October 31, 2015. The clips will be in Kreyòl but she will provide essential translations.

Panelists included Syto Cavé, Prof. Luna Gourgue, Prof. Hugues Saint-Fort and Menes Déjoie among many others.

Themes:

The Haitian Creole Academy, what is it?

Theater as a teaching tool for instruction in Haitian Creole

Listen live or archived at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/12/05/legacy-of-1804-on-haitian-creole-symposium-at-brooklyn-college-lof1804. Call in to listen or participate at

(714) 242-6119.

 
 Would you like to host a show on a topic of your choice? Drop me a line about your idea and desired date.

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO

We played talks by Prof. Luna Gourgue, E.D. of Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen, about the role and mission of the Haitian Creole Academy and by Menes Déjoie on the topic: "What has theater ever done for the Haitian people?"




LIVE TWEET RECAP:

Haitian Creole Symposium 2015 at Brooklyn College - Highlights (Kr)

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Legacy of 1804 with Altagracia Jean-Joseph #Haiti #DR

Join me this friday at 9PM as I welcome Altagracia Jean-Joseph, a Dominican of Haitian descent. We will discuss the effect of the DR denationalization ruling on her life. The conversation will mostly be in Kreyòl, the only language we both speak but you can call to ask questions in English, French or Spanish.  We will translate.

Listen LIVE or ARCHIVED at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/08/01/legacy-of-1804-with-altagracia-jean-joseph-dr-haiti. Listen LIVE on the phone at (714) 242-6119.

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO 

The show was in Kreyòl with a  wrap-up in English in the last 20 minutes of audio.

Key takeaway:

A J-J: 45,000 ppl under tents on the #Haiti-#DR border many of which are denationalized Dominicans of Haitian descent. #lof1804

— Alice Backer (@kiskeacity) August 1, 2015

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Legacy of 1804 with Marian Douglas-Ungaro #LOF1804 #AfroAmericas

Join me tonight as Marian Douglas-Ungaro joins us to discuss the International Decade of People of African Descent, the United Nations in Haiti and topics related to Afrodescendants.

Marian Douglas-Ungaro is a Black American woman writer and "semi-public Intellectual." A native of Washington, DC, she is a broadcast journalist and international consultant in elections and human rights who has worked in international CIVILIAN (NON-military) election and human rights missions in countries in the Americas (including Haiti) and also in former Yugoslavia. She is the founder of AFROAMERICAS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organisation working for real recognition, justice, and grassroots development for the Afrodescendant People of the Americas. Currently focused on implementing, observing, and celebrating the International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024. She speaks and works in five (5) languages.

Listen live at  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/01/17/legacy-of-1804-with-marian-douglas-ungaro-afroamericas-lof1804 or at  714-242-6119 (live only). Please note that this call-in number is new and that the old one will no longer work.

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO

Links of documents discussed:
Vienna Declaration - Published Version http://ht.ly/HvewS
International Decade for People of African Descent http://ht.ly/HvezQ

We also discussed the contradiction between the  United Nations blue helmets' human rights abuses and negligence in Haiti and elsewhere and its International Decade for People  African Descent.

Check the #LOF1804 hashtag for some live tweeting.

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Legacy of 1804 with Dr. Fabienne Doucet #LangKreyòl #LOF1804

Join me tonight as I welcome Dr. Fabienne Doucet to discuss Selebrasyon Lang Kreyòl ak Kilti Ayisyen, a symposium at Brooklyn college on October 24-25. Listen at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2014/10/18/legacy-of-1804-with-dr-fabienne-doucet-kreyl-lof1804 of at 323-927-2913.

Dr. Doucet is a professor of Education at NYU. Find out more about her scholarship here: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Fabienne_Doucet

On Twitter, use #LOF1804 to weigh in!

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO

We had tons of fun discussing Lang Kreyòl Nou with Dr. Doucet in English and of course Kreyòl. We discussed the Akademi Kreyòl as well as the appointment of Haitians to Francophonia Institutions such as the Académie Française. We also discussed the importance of orality and of repertorying Haitian oral traditions such as sacred and folks songs in teaching Kreyòl. I posted various Kreyòl learning resources offered by Haitians on my Twitter feed at #lof1804, including resources for children for those in the NY area.

There was a rich Q&A so thanks to Hans Roy and Katleen Félix for their engagement!

Dr. Doucet was with us for an hour and in the second hour, Hans and Katleen offered great updates and compared notes on topics as varied as Katleen's Diaspora Investment Survey, this week's news including the unfortunate renewal of MINUSTAH, upcoming events such as a livestream with survey results which Katleen is preparing in Chicago and the HCX Ann Pale with Manbo Dowoti coming up this week. An all around great show and meeting of the minds!

Depending on where you live, hope to see you at the various Selebrasyon Lang Kreyòl taking place in NY and Massachussets next weekend! Kreyòl Pale, Kreyòl Konprann!

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Legacy of 1804 #26 with Tontongi Eddy Toussaint #Kreyòl #LOF1804

Vandredi swa map resevwa Tontongi ki se fondatè Près Trileng nan Boston e ki ekri yon atik toulòtjou sou zafè Akademi Fransèz ak Akademi Kreyòl. Nap diskite ki konsekans apwentman yon Ayisen nan Akademi Fransèz ap genyen sou kreasyon yon Akademi Kreyòl.

Join me as I welcome Tontongi a.k.a. Eddy Toussaint, founder of Trilingual Press and author of a recent article on the consequences for the Akademi Kreyòl of the appointment of a Haitian to the French Academy. The interview will be held in Creole but you can ask questions in any language Haitians speak.

The article we will discuss is:
Haïti-Langue : Les implications malheureuses de l’élection de Dany Laferrière à l’Académie française http://ht.ly/vqfkG

Listen Online http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2014/04/05/legacy-of-1804-ak-tontongi-eddy-toussaint-lof1804-haiti or on the phone at (323) 927-2913.

You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804. On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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SHOW AUDIO:

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Legacy of 1804 #24: #Haiti News and Blog Review (3/21 at 9PM)

Join me this Friday 3/21 at 9PM  as I review recent articles and Haitian citizen media about Haiti, the US' recent support of UN immunity in cholera lawsuit, the latest in Ile-a-Vache land grab and more!

Among the articles and clips up for discussion:

Haitian-American elected officials press State Department on cholera epidemic suit | Boston Haitian Reporter http://ht.ly/uNIob

Black Agenda Radio Interview with Dr. Jemima Pierre (@BLK_DIASPORAS)  on US supporting immunity for the UN in Cholera Lawsuit | Black Agenda Report http://ht.ly/uNJFg

The Fight for Haiti's Ile a Vache: An Exclusive Interview With Abaka Bay's Robert Dietrich / via @newsjunkiepost http://ht.ly/uQOZs 



Listen Online http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2014/03/22/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-and-blog-review-lof1804 or on the phone at (323) 927-2913.

You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available at http://www.kiskeacity.com/search/label/LOF1804.

On Twitter: react to or ask questions by using the hashtag #LOF1804.

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SHOW AUDIO

Hugues Girard, a Haitian video blogger who has been summarizing the news on Ile-à-Vache, joined us to offer the latest on the evolving land grab there.  He tweets at @1hugeghugues and his youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7MI0QAvhZnqZnbQIEgvyA/videos.

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Legacy of 1804 Show #8 with guest Prof. Patrick Sylvain #Haiti #Language

This Friday at 9pm  Eastern, Alice Backer of www.kiskeacity.com welcomes guest Prof. Patrick Sylvain on 'Do Haitians speak Creole or Haitian'? The answer might surprise you.

Want a preview? Check out his article ‘I am Haitian, not a Creole, and I speak Haitian’ http://www.bostonhaitian.com/2011/‘i-am-haitian-not-creole-and-i-speak-haitian’

 
Patrick Sylvain is a poet, writer, and scholar and is a faculty member at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Additionally, Sylvain is also a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is published in several anthologies, academic journals, books, magazines, and reviews, including Agni, Callaloo, Caribbean Writers, Haiti Noir, Human Architecture: A Sociology Journal, Poets for Haiti, Fixing Haiti and Beyond, The Butterfly’s Way, Tectonic Shifts, The Best of Beacon Press, and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Recently featured in PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio’s Here and Now and The Story, he is also a contributing editor to the Boston Haitian Reporter.

Listen Online http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/11/23/legacy-of-1804-with-guest-prof-patrick-sylvain-haiti or on the phone at (323) 927-2913.

You can listen to past shows on iTunes by searching keywords 'Legacy of 1804'. Past shows are also available under LOF 1804 tab at www.kiskeacity.com

UPDATE 11/23 (SHOW AUDIO):

Amazing show! 

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Legacy of 1804 Show #4 with guest Wynnie Lamour (@kreyolnyc) (AUDIO)

My guest last Friday on Legacy of 1804 was Wynnie Lamour of the Haitian Creole Language Institute. We discussed her life's mission, what motivated her to create the institute at the tender age of 29, her plan to translate the whole of Dezafi, Franketienne's  Creole language novel, her decision not to go 501c3 and more. Wynnie also read excerpts of her existing published translations of Dezafi.
 
About Wynnie: Wynnie Lamour is the founder of the Haitian Creole Language Institute of NYC.
She is an educator with a focus on Language & Communication. She has spent the last several years teaching Haitian Creole in the New York City metro area to a wide array of language learners. Her experiences growing up in Brooklyn as a Haitian-American have provided her with equal comfort in both cultures and languages. Wynnie has a BA in Linguistics from Cornell University and an MA in Urban Affairs from CUNY Queens College. Wynnie's philosophy of teaching is rooted in the idea of "Mindfulness", which promotes community and connectedness,while establishing a sense of pride and respect for both the Haitian language and culture. Wynnie's most recent work includes a translation of an excerpt of the Franketienne novel "Dezafi" published May 2013 by Transition Magazine (Issue 111 "New Narratives of Haiti"), a publication of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

Here are the link and player to the show:

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/26/legacy-of-1804

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Legacy of 1804 show with guest Wynnie Lamour this Friday 9PM EA

Join guest Wynnie Lamour  of Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY and I this Friday at 9PM Eastern on Black Whole Radio. We will discuss her institute, her students and her work with Frankétienne.

Wynnie Lamour is the founder of the Haitian Creole Language Institute of NYC.
She is an educator with a focus on Language & Communication. She has
spent the last several years teaching Haitian Creole in the New York
City metro area to a wide array of language learners. Her experiences
growing up in Brooklyn as a Haitian-American have provided her with
equal comfort in both cultures and languages. Wynnie has a BA in
Linguistics from Cornell University and an MA in Urban Affairs from
CUNY Queens College. Wynnie's philosophy of teaching is rooted in the
idea of "Mindfulness", which promotes community and connectedness,
while establishing a sense of pride and respect for both the Haitian
language and culture. Wynnie's most recent work includes a translation
of an excerpt of the Franketienne novel "Dezafi" published May 2013 by
Transition Magazine (Issue 111 "New Narratives of Haiti"), a
publication of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

You can listen to this installment of Legacy of 1804  by clicking on the link below or via phone at 323-927-2913. (Yes, just dial the number at 9PM on Friday and ... listen ON YOUR PHONE.)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/26/legacy-of-1804

Find out more about Wynnie Lamour at www.haitiancreoleinstitute.com.  





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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011

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Lots on Creole whether Haitian (Boston Globe), Jamaican (from the blog of Annie Paul) or Swiss-German;  more on Martelly and the CIRH as well as his tourism week tour, his visit to the North where he was attacked and the parliamentary/prime minister crisis including a plea by members of French parliament and Haitian industrialists to reach a consensus; death of a deputy. Nafissatou Diallo's first public appearance caught my eye as well.

The interesting blog posts are under the #Haiti tag. Topics include: Creoles and education in Haiti, Jamaica and Switzerland, a view of P-au-P, library updates by the Bibliothèques sans Frontières blog, upcoming Port-au-Prince arts and entertainment events including a conference on Jean Price-Mars as well as a letter by Haitians in Guadeloupe decrying the Haitian consulate there and OGLHaiti's upcoming radio show on the Haitian environment.

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Tweets of the Day 1/29/11

Egypt



Haiti

Brain drain and now Twitter drain?


Comic relief


Men Twitjako fè Grann ak Miki tounen M&M...

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Nicholas Laughlin on Caribbean Literature

David Sasaki has a lovely interview with Trinidadian author Nicholas Laughlin. They are both at the Calabash literary festival in Jamaica right now and you can almost taste the sea salt. They are talking about Caribbean literature, imaginary roads, creoleness and it all makes you a bit nostalgic...

I'm embedding the video below but you can also just click here.



Nicholas blogs here and is the editor of the Caribbean Review of Books.

Technorati Tags: nicholaslaughlin, caribbeanreviewofbooks, calabashliteraryfestival

Remembering

• Languichatte, the late Haitian comedian and father of Lolo and Daniel Beaubrun of Boukman Eksperyans. See the Facebook page dedicated to him, complete with the Haitian TV show's theme song! A treat full of memories of Friday evening laughter. 1,037 nostalgic fans have joined it. I found this joke and this slideshow on youtube. They're in Creole and hopefully someone can translate some to English on DotSUB.

• Aimé Césaire, the late Martiniquan poet and politician. Memories of bloggers from the world over are summarized on this blog post by Jen Bréa at Global Voices. Césaire was one of the theoreticians of the Negritude movement. He passed away last week. He penned La Tragédie du Roi Christophe, a play about an early Haitian statesman.

Technorati: languichatte - aime cesaire

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"Dubiously" Caribbean Musings in Big City Salsa: the kiskeacity come-back

I'm back to blogging, sort of. I have good excuses for the 6-month hiatus: work which has been quite intense lately and GV Lingua which I am proud to say now translates Global Voices in 10 languages including Malagasy and Bangla and processing my not-so-recent breakup. But I wouldn't be honest if I didn't also add that I was also struck by writer's blogger's block.

The by-line to this blog so far has been "Caribbean Musings in Big City Salsa." I first started it when I thought I'd apply for phD programs that might allow me to study aspects of the Caribbean that don't have to do with big drunken tourist buses on resorts. Aspects like its long history involving agents and commercial flows to and from four continents, islandness, creolization, mulattoization (i.e race mixing) etc. But though I live in a Caribbean metropolis located outside of it (Brooklyn, NY, USA), I no longer live on one of its islands (Kiskeya aka Hispaniola aka Haiti/Dominican Republic). Hence the ''in Big City Salsa" part of the by-line.

As Brooklyn itself (where I have now lived 10 years!) and Fort Greene, Brooklyn in particular is quite a creolized and creolizing place (I have taken to calling some of my native Brooklynite friends Brooklyn Creoles), I have an infinite amount to say about it and my experiences here. And my old refrain that "Brooklyn is part of the Caribbean", though true, is no longer enough to "excuse" musings about Brooklyn which you should expect to see many more of here. So I am adding "Dubiously" to the by-line and I hope that marks the punto final to my writer's blogger's block.

PS: Expect to see a whole lot more about GV Lingua as well and translation and translation tools in general. Should I rename this blog Global Creole? :-)

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Vagina Monologues in Creole Photos

I've been meaning to share pictures of the V-Day Vagina Monologues in Creole event that I attended at the Brooklyn Museum on March 17th. Here they are. The event was organized by Dwa Fanm and featured Monologues author Eve Ensler and Edwidge Danticat, among other wonderful performers. I will come back with highlights as soon as I get a chance. For now I'm annotating the pictures in Flickr so you can know who's who. Enjoy!

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Zouk Song Opened French César Awards (Videos)

Check out Valérie Lemercier, the hostess of the French César awards this year, performing a boisterous rendition of Zouk Machine's 80's hit Maldón, and in Creole too. The Césars are the French equivalent of the Oscars. Check out francophone blogger reactions to both the zouk performance and the Oscars and Césars in my latest Global Voices post: Francophone Bloggers on Oscars and Césars.

VALERIE LEMERCIER AUX CESAR

Oh and to take some of you down memory lane or for other's viewing pleasure, here is the original's video:

Zouk Machine - Maldon

Technorati Tags: césar, oscars, valérie lemercier, zouk machine, maldón, zouk