It all began on the radio in Saint Lucia in 1983. Here is the story of International Creole Day, from the radio studio to the villages and islands that celebrate it.
“Sake a mout fish get ketch” means that a loose tongue can cost you dearly. It’s a proverb shared by Belize and Jamaica, involving fish, roosters, and patois.
In Suriname, walls made of bricks imported from Europe rest beneath the trees along the banks of the Suriname River. This is Jodensavanne, a Jewish
Beneath the shield of Dominica’s coat of arms, a scroll carries a phrase in Kwéyòl. « Après Bondie, c’est la Ter ». After God, the
Anton de Kom, born in Paramaribo (Suriname) on February 22, 1898, and died at the Sandbostel camp (Germany) on April 24, 1945, is the author
Union activist Jacky Richard says he wrote the chorus spontaneously, in the midst of the 2009 strike. He didn’t yet know that those few words
Colonel Wallace Sterling, leader of the Maroons of Moore Town, notes that a Christmas celebration has come to an end in his village. The surrounding
Sir Arthur Lewis, born in Castries, Saint Lucia, on January 23, 1915, was the economist who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979 for
“Dera Gai” translates to “burying the rooster.” However, in Aruba on June 24, the live rooster has disappeared from the ritual. A gourd has taken
Founded on April 22, 1819, on the southern coast of Cuba, Cienfuegos was established as part of a Spanish project by settlers from France and
Betico Croes, a schoolteacher who became a political leader, led Aruba toward “Status Aparte,” which took effect on January 1, 1986. This status separates the
In the 1950s, a Dutch Dominican priest arrived in Curaçao with a notebook and a tape recorder. Paul Brenneker did not come to convert people;
Bridgetown was built in successive layers around the same Amerindian bridge, which in turn became a slave port, a Sephardic synagogue, and a British garrison,
In April 2008, a handful of freedivers dove into a marine abyss south of Long Island in the Bahamas and broke three world records and
On September 24, Trinidad and Tobago celebrates its 50th anniversary as a republic. In 1976, fourteen years after gaining independence, the country replaced the British
“Asere, ¿qué bolá?”, this Cuban street greeting, was already in common use in Havana’s working-class neighborhoods long before a U.S. president adopted it as well.
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