Legacy of 1804 | Bwa Kayiman Anniversary #LOF1804 #Haiti

Host: Alice

Time: 10:15PM (sorry for the change in time tonight)

Guests (all pre-recorded): Dahoud André (tentative) | Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Gilles

Topic: Bwa Kayiman and various celebrations of its anniversary in New York this weekend.



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Legacy of 1804 | CNN's Vodou Documentary | Was it a Hack Job? #LOF1804

This Friday night at 9PM, join a manbo, an ordained minister, a philosopher and me for a spirited discussion about CNN's recent documentary on Haitian vodou

9-9:30  > Pawol ak Mizik Opening segment: Paul Beaubrun on being a Beaubrun, the state of the mizik rasin, his tour with Lauryn Hill, his latest album and his future plans

9:30 - 11 > Guests for vodou discussion: GwetoDe Manbo Fabiola Abellard | Dr. Celucien Joseph, ordained minister and theologian| Dr. Paul Mocombe, author of The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

Articles/Media to be discussed:

By Dr. Celucien Joseph:

http://www.lunionsuite.com/vodou-not-country-haiti-not-religion/

By Dr. Jerry Gilles and Yvrose Gilles:

http://bookmanlit.com/editorialsletters/reponspoucnnsouvodou.html (kreyol)

http://bookmanlit.com/editorialsletters/responsetocnnvodou.html (english)

CNN | Believer | Reza Aslan | Vodou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NIqsAluX64

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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:


Paul Beaubrun was not able to join us but we played his music and will welcome him live soon. There were so many reactions to Dr. Joseph's article that we focused only on that and will reconvene to discuss Dr. Gilles' article on a later show.

Topics:

The extent of the christianity of the Kongo Kingdom before the transatlantic slave trade, given that a significant proportion of Haitians' ancestors came from the Kongo kingdom. Dr. Mocombe and Manbo Fabiola took exception to Dr. Lou's assertions that all the Kongos who came to Haiti were catholic. Rather, Dr. Mocombe believes that only their elites had converted to Christianity. |  We also discussed the incessant persecution of vodouyizan in Haiti by the Catholic church initially and now by evangelical christians and the white supremacist ideology that fuels that persecution.|  Dr. Mocombe and Manbo Fabiola also took exception to Dr. Joseph's assertion that Christianity and Islam are as ancestral to Haitians as is Vodou. | The issue of mental health in relation to vodou and to the perception of vodou by authorities in North America came up as well.

Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | Kanaval & Presidents #LOF1804

This Friday night at 9PM, join me and co-host Hugues Girard as we go over the week's news about Haiti and Haitians.

Topics: Kanaval expenses in Haiti, Sweet Micky's not so "PG" outburst in Okay against two prominent journalists and what it means for Jovenel Moïse | Café Philo discussion on mining in Haiti | Rape survivor Cynthia Verna's outburst on the arrest of a 60-year-old for the rape of an 11-year-old | The arrest of an American missionary for pedophilia.



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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

Minute 1-30: Reminiscing on Rene Preval and Thierra Gardere's lives.

Minutes 30-40: Clips and highlights of GwetoDe swearing-in ceremony on February 25th.

Minute 40-End: Clip and commentary of Martelly at Kanaval Okay; Discussion of Cynthia Verna triggered on Facebook Live; Discussion of Arkansas missionary Daniel Pye jailed in the US for child sex tourism in Haiti; Discussion of mining in Haiti.

Legacy of 1804 | Fabiola Abelard & Florence Jean-Joseph | Swearing-In as Diaspora GwètòDe #LOF1804

Join me this Friday at 9PM as I welcome Fabiola Abelard and Florence Jean-Joseph, two spiritual leaders who will be sworn-in  as GwètòDe for the Haitian Diaspora by the Konfederasyon Nasyonal Vodouyizan Ayisyen (KNVA) on Saturday, February 25th in Harlem, NYC.  Find out more about and register for this swearing-in a.k.a. Wosman ceremony here.  Find out more about Wosman in general here.

We will answer the following questions: What is a GwètòDe? How and why is a GwètòDe appointed? What is KNVA? What are the GwètòDe's responsibilities towards the community? Please call-in with questions of your own or tweet them to me @kiskeacity.

More about the swearing-in/wosman this Saturday:


To strengthen its international presence, KNVA created the administrative positions of “GwètòDe”, “Gwètò.”

Together with the "Ati National', the Grand Council of KNVA will convene in New York for an official two-fold ceremony entitled “Wosman” (elevation and presentation). One representative each from New York, Canada, Massachusetts and French Guyana will be formally installed and introduced to the Community.




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Legacy of 1804 with Sokari Ekine #LOF1804 #Haiti #Nigeria

This Friday at 9PM,  join me as I welcome photographer Sokari Ekine of blacklooks.org to discuss her photo exhibit Spirit Desire inspired by her journey through Haiti and its spirituality as a journalist, educator, IDP Camp volunteer and mobile clinic attendant. The exhibit opens at Calabar Gallery in Harlem on January 25, 2017.

Sokari is a Nigerian activist, writer and photographer whose work and writing is engaged with pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist, femnist and environmental politics — in both Haiti and Nigeria. She has written for academic journals, anthologies and news publications including Pambazuka News, Feminist Africa and New Internationalist and she is the editor of Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Violence from Women of the Niger Delta, SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa, and with Firoze Manji, African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions.


You can listen online at kiskeacity.com, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2016/12/10/legacy-of-1804-with-sokari-ekine-lof1804-haiti-nigeria or on the phone at 714-242-6119.




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Legacy of 1804 | Fidel Castro and Haiti #LOF1804

Join me this Friday at 9PM as I welcome Dr. Paul Camy Mocombe, an Assistant Professor at West Virginia State University, to discuss Fidel Castro and Haiti.

Dr. Mocombe is a social theorist interested in race, class and globalization. He is the author of Jesus and the Streets, Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities; Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies; A labor Approach to the Development of the Self or Modern Personality: The Case of Public Education, Education in Globalization; Mocombe’s Reading Room Series; and The Mocombeian Strategy: The Reason for, and Answer to Black Failure in Capitalist Education.



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Legacy of 1804 with Deejay Sabine Blaizin #LOF1804 (Replay)

Join me on Legacy of 1804 this Friday at 9PM EA as I chat with Haitian-American DJ and innovator Sabine Blaizin. Check out her Lakay se Lakay campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lakay-se-lakay-home-is-home .


(This show is a rebroadcast from February 2014 so we will not be taking questions live.)
 
DJ Sabine spins Global Soul: House, Afrotech, Afrobeat, Haitian Roots and other diasporic tunes. She is the new Brand Marketing Director and DJ/Producer at Ocha Records. She has been a panelist at several discussions at the Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), highlighting the power of spirituality in the arts and will speak at the forthcoming 27th Annual Women of Power Conference 2014. She is one of MediaServiceNYC's Most Respected House DJ's of 2014.



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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.

Theme song for the show is 'One Note Rara' from the album ‘Blues in Red’ courtesy of Buyu Ambroise and the Blues in Red Band.



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Legacy of 1804 with Dr. Gina Ulysse #LOF1804 #Haiti

Join me tonight at 9PM as I welcome anthropologist  Gina Ulysse to discuss her new book "Why Haiti Needs New Narratives." Dr. Ulysse will be reading from the book on Saturday at the Brooklyn Public Library. Find out more here.

On tonight's show she and I will chat it up on the mainstream U.S. press' handling of Ati Max Beauvoir's recent passing, including the pervasive use of the word V O O D O O to designate Vodou. Dr. Ulysse is one of many academics who have fought for the Library of Congress to stop the use of that spelling of the word given its association with Hollywood fantasies and racist caricatures of Haitians' ancestral spirituality.

We will also discuss Dr. Ulysse's recent pieces on racism in the Unites States and the #BlackLivesMatter movement for the blog Africa is a Country.

I also hope to talk about her choice to and the process of publishing her book in French, English and Kreyòl, all languages spoken by Haitians.

Dr. Ulysse is Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University.

Listen live or archived at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/09/19/legacy-of-1804-with-dr-gina-ulysse-haiti-lof1804-1. Or listen LIVE on the phone: (714) 242-6119.


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Legacy of 1804 with Okai Musik #LOF1804

Join me tonight as I welcome musician and drummer Okai Musik to discuss getting into Haitian drumming as a Haitian-American.

Born in Brooklyn of Haitian parents, Okai Musik drums in the groups StringsNSkins and Brown Rice Family.  Though he has been a drummer for many years, his foray into Haitian drumming is recent.

Listen live at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2014/09/27/legacy-of-1804-with-okai-musik-lof1804 or on the phone at 323-927-2913.

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Legacy of 1804 on Bwa Kayiman #Haiti #LOF1804

Join host Alice Backer of www.kiskeacity.com as she discusses the Bwa Kayiman ceremony with Dr. Jerry Gilles and Yvrose Gilles of www.bookmanlit.com. The Bwa Kayiman ceremony kicked off the Haitian Revolution on August 14, 1791.

Doctor Jerry M. Gilles and Yvrose Gilles are co-editors of Bookmanlit.com a site that promotes study of Haitian-African culture. They have written several books and articles and have lectured at universities and museums. They have appeared on radio and television programs to talk about various aspects of Haitian History and Religion. Their most recent books include Bicentennial: Haiti's Gift to the World and Remembrance: Roots, Rituals, and Reverence in Vodou.

Doctor Jerry M. Gilles, specializes in High Risk Obstetrics. He graduated from Columbia University and obtained his doctorate in Medicine at the SUNY at Stony Brook.

Ms. Gilles obtained her undergraduate degree from Barnard College of Columbia University and obtained a Master of Science degree at Teacher's College of Columbia University. By family tradition, Ms. Gilles is descendant of both Dahomey and Kongo. By genetic analysis, she is also descendant of the Mede people of the Ivory Coast.

Listen Online http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2014/08/16/legacy-of-1804-on-bwa-kayiman-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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Legacy of 1804 with Manbo Dòwòti Désir #Haiti #Langlois #Africa

Join me as I welcome Manbo Dòwòti Désir for her second visit tonight 8/8 at 9PM EA. We discuss her new book Goud Kase Goud  as well as Catholic Cardinal Langlois' recent statements on Vodou to the british publication The Guardian. Manbo Dòwòti recently published a rebuttal to Langlois that you can read here:
http://dowodesir.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/erasing-memory-the-miseducation-of-a-cardinal/. We will read and discuss it tonight.

Dòwòti Désir is a Manbo Asogwe and a scholar of Haitian Vodou. She is the Founder and President of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Watch Group (www.ddpawatchgroup.info). She utilizes interfaith exchanges and cultural diplomacy to facilitate better understanding of AfroAtlantic spiritual systems in the global North. She has written extensively about the contemporary and sacred arts of the African Diaspora, its religions and sociopolitical issues impacting the global African community. Her recent book Goud kase goud: Conjuring Memory in Spaces of the AfroAtlantic focuses on the right to memory, the built environment, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. She is a graduate of Barnard College and has a Master's degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. - See more at: http://www.kiskeacity.com/search?q=dowoti+#sthash.zB9DkSMl.dpuf


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Legacy of 1804 with guests Manbo Dowoti Désir and Katleen Félix (AUDIO) #Haiti #Podcast

My guest last week on Legacy of 1804 was Manbo Dowoti Désir. We discussed Fèt Gede, the alleged cuttings of mapou trees by protestant missions in Haiti and the June 2012 constitutional amendment which repealed safeguards for religious freedom built into the 1987 Haitian constitution. We also discussed CARICOM's slavery reparations case. 

Dowoti Désir is a Manbo Asogwe and a scholar of Haitian Vodou. She is the Founder and President of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Watch Group (www.ddpawatchgroup.info). She utilizes interfaith exchanges and cultural diplomacy to facilitate better understanding of AfroAtlantic spiritual systems in the global North. She has written extensively about the contemporary and sacred arts of the African Diaspora, its religions and sociopolitical issues impacting the global African community. Her book, 'Wòch Kase wòch: Redlining a Holocaust, Memorials and the People of the AfroAtlantic,' focusing on the right to memory, the built environment, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, will be available in 2014. She is a graduate of Barnard College and has a Master's degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

In the second hour, we also talked to Katleen Félix of Fonkoze and Zafèn about the 2nd Annual NAHP conference which took place last weekend.  

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Show theme music is by Buyu Ambroise from the album Blues in Red. 

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Legacy of 1804 with guests Dowoti Désir and Katleen Felix this Thursday at 5PM

This Thursday a 5PM I welcome Manbo Dowoti Désir in the first hour. We will be discussing the Gede tradition in Haiti as well as her involvement with reparations for slavery. We will also be discussing the recriminalization of Haitian Vodou in the latest amendment to the Haitian Constitution and the cutting of the mapou tree at Bwa Kayiman by foreign missionaries or affiliates.

Dowoti Désir is a Manbo Asogwe and a scholar of Haitian Vodou. She is the Founder and President of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Watch Group (www.ddpawatchgroup.info). She utilizes interfaith exchanges and cultural diplomacy to facilitate better understanding of AfroAtlantic spiritual systems in the global North. She has written extensively about the contemporary and sacred arts of the African Diaspora, its religions and sociopolitical issues impacting the global African community. Her book, 'Wòch Kase wòch: Redlining a Holocaust, Memorials and the People of the AfroAtlantic,' focusing on the right to memory, the built environment, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, will be available in 2014. She is a graduate of Barnard College and has a Master's degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

In the second hour we will chat with Katleen Felix of Zafèn and Fonkoze about the Association of Haitian Professionals conference taking place this weekend.

Katleen Félix is an international Consultant holding a Master’s degree in International Finance and Management from HEC Montreal. Katleen Felix has been the Haitian Diaspora Liaison for Fonkoze (www.fonkoze.org) for the past 6 years, where she was responsible of research and development of new remittance products or initiatives, financial literacy programs for new immigrants, training and capacity-building for Haitian Hometown Associations (HHTAs), project reporting and donor relations. Her most recent project is the launch of Zafen (www.zafen.org ) a new crowd funding website for small-and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and social enterprises in Haiti. She has designed the pilot “Remittance for Business” which trained over 300 people in Haiti and in the Haitian Diaspora.

This show will re-air Friday night at 9pm usual time. 



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LOF 1804 Show #3 with guest Val Jeanty (@Val_Inc) (AUDIO)

My guest last night on Legacy of 1804 was Val Jeanty. We discussed her life's mission, her art, her spirituality. Several callers chimed in including our first guest Katia Ulysse of Voices from Haiti!

About Val: Haitian electronic music composer/percussionist/turntablist Val Jeanty evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious. She incorporates her African Haitian Musical traditions into the present and beyond, combining acoustics with electronics and the archaic with the post-modern. Her "Afro-Electronica" installations have been showcased in New York City at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Village Vanguard and internationally at SaalFelden Music Festival in Austria, Stanser Musiktage in Switzerland, Jazz à la Villette in France, and the Biennale Di Venezia Museum in Italy.

Here are the link and player to the show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/19/legacy-of-1804

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Here is the video I captured of Val in 2012 at a Haiti Cultural Exchange event, a performance we discussed on the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5M90DoDJlw

Find out more about Val and her music at http://www.val-inc.com

Here is the video about Jean-Jacques Dessalines' life that I did not get a chance to play on the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqdhtoi_ZgM


Hope you call in next week when we talk to Wynnie Lamour of Haitian Creole Institute of NYC.


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