Jean H. Charles

To eavesdrop on the locals and gauge the situation on the ground, instead of travelling by plane, I took the long road by bus from Port-au-Prince to the north of Haiti towards the city of Cape Haitian. My final destination being my hometown, the city of Grand River, where the feast of St Rose was taking place on August 30.
Grand River is located 24 kilometers from Cape Haitian, the hometown of Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines; it is also the home base of Jean Price Mars, Haiti's most notable anthropologist, the father figure of black is beautiful.
For the Diaspora or the transnational, attending one's home town fiesta is priceless. The city, a bucolic to ...

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