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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Children's Story Written in Haitian Creole and English: "Pa Ponpe sou Kabann nan - No Jumping on the Bed!"


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Pa Ponpe Sou Kabann nan! – Stop Jumping on the Bed! - No Salten en la Cama! is the story of six siblings: Lili, Lala, Lolo, Lila, Lola and Lele who could never stop jumping on their parents' bed until a series of mishaps and accidents started taking place. Manman Baba and Papa Bibi's kids were only afraid of the housemaid who often complained about having to clean up all these children's mess. One day, Manman Baba stayed home and found out how much headache her children can give to the sitter and maid. Find out what happened to the kids and why they finally decided to change and stop messing around so much.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Read Tijan's Story in "Grandfather's Mercy! Parenn Pran Pitye or Pitye, Parenn! plus Haitian Creole, French, and English Phrases and Vocabulary


"Godfather's Mercy - Pitye, Parenn! or Parenn Pran Pitye; plus Popular French, English, and Haitian Creole Phrases" provides you with the most popular basic phrases in French, English, and Haitian Creole. It also comes equipped with easy-to-use vocabulary in all three languages. In addition, it presents Tijan's story and his godfather's mercy on him. Fatherless, 10-year-old Tijan decides to leave the treeless mountaintop where he lives with his always-drunk mother in search of an elusive education in crop-rich downtown Leogane, Haiti. Will Tijan reach his dream of learning how to read and write? Will her mother even realize that he went missing? Find out how His godfather, Mr. Bonifas, convinces his wife as he decides to offer to Tijan the same opportunities and access to education and a better life their own children enjoy. The text of this story is translated into English from Haitian Creole.
               

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Popular Haitian Children’s Choruses, Lullaby, Haitian Creole and French Church Hymns, and Other Play Songs: Ala Ou Gran! Ala Ou Gran! How great thou art! How great thou art!


Sing along with Haitian Children! Canten con los chicos Haitianos. This compilation is for those who want to sing along with Haitian Children at christian venues, outreach mission trips, schools, churches and elsewhere. Some of the songs are short choruses...

Start playing some of these choruses on your guitar or piano and the Haitian children will follow you. They will sing with you. All throughout the country, these songs are are sung in most churches or revival centers.

These are songs I used to sing with the children of my Sunday school class. L'ecole du Dimanche or Sunday school can be a lot of fun with the right selection of songs.


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Ala Ou Gran! Ala Ou Gran! How great thou art! How great thou art! Popular Haitian Children’s Choruses, Lullaby, Haitian Creole and French Church Hymns, and Other Play Songs

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"Alleluia Haitian Chants of Hope and Faith: Praise to Thee, O Lord, King of Eternal Glory"


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Monday, March 17, 2014

We Begin with History: Is Black History Month Still Relevant?



Book Overview: "We Begin with History: Is Black History Month Still Relevant? - Tribute to Carter G. Woodson: Black History Month Or African-American History Month Or U.S. History" is mainly a Black History Month program containing a very important speech on the subjects and objects of history prepared for a luncheon and various oeuvres/works from well-known African American poets and writers such as Frederick Douglas, Langston Hughes, and Haitian writers/poets. "We Begin with History..." will help you answer some interesting questions about the relevance of Black History Month celebration etc.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Rosa Parks's Magic Farm Adventures (A Fictional Account of Rosa's Childhood, A Black History Month Young Adult {YA} Story)


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We met Rosa Parks when she was 42 years old on December 1, 1955 in the front row of a city bus. How about her early life and childhood?

Born Rosa Louise McCauley, she was the loving daughter of James and Leona McCauley, respectively a carpenter and a teacher. Rosa grew up on a farm in Level, Alabama. Her parents and she lived on the grandparents' farm. This book is a fictional account of Rosa McCauley's childhood on a large farm. It will tell you about the many adventures she used to go on with her pet dog Chester and pet goat Chiva.

This book is a fictional account of Rosa McCauley's childhood on a large farm. It will tell you about the many adventures she used to go on with her pet dog Chester and pet goat Chiva. It will also tell you how Rosa got her first babysitting job. Having learned how to take care of chickens, pigs, goats on the farm, she grew up to be a very responsible girl.

Playing soldiers is one thing, but trespassing onto a forbidden community full of hatred and bent on keeping the status quo was another thing. It was pure suicide for those two black boys.
And the suspense builds on.
Find out what happened when some clan guards spotted them galloping away.....from their cross stockpile....
This is an action-packed, fictional account of Rosa's childhood adventures.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Tacky, Crazy, Naughty Ugly Christmas Sweaters in Haitian Creole

Buy Ugly Christmas sweater – Achte chanday Nowèl ki lèd
Shop Ugly clothes – Achte Rad lèd
Ugly Christmas sweater presents – Kado Chanday Nowèl lèd
Where to buy ugly clothes – Ki kote pou-n achte rad lèd
Ugly Christmas Sweater Party – Fèt chanday lèd pandan Nowèl
A knit Christmas sweater vest for a dude – Yon Vès chanday Nowèl akrochè pou gason
A green Christmas sweater – Yon Chanday Nowèl ki vèt
The snow sweater – Chanday pou lanèj
Crazy Christmas sweaters – Chanday Nowèl moun fou mete sou yo / Chanday Nowèl pou moun fou
Naughty Christmas sweaters – Chanday Nowèl pou kalekò
Traditionally ugly sweaters – Chanday tradisyonèl lèd pou Nowèl
Sweaters with lights – Chanday ak limyè / chanday ki gen lumyè

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What you are buying is only a list of how to say ugly clothes for all occasions in Haitian Creole

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Steve Jobs’ Poetic Biography, Business Principles, and Decisions: How to Live Before Dying, Acumen, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship

The world has lost a great mind, a wonderful innovator, a competitor for sure, but a great pitchman!


Steve Jobs left us with some great gadgets such as the iphone, ipod, and iPad. But his life and example are full of lessons, words of wisdom for the business people and contemporary entrepreneurs.

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"Steve Jobs’ Poetic Biography, Business Principles and Decisions: How to Live Before Dying, Acumen, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship" is a book based on the public life and business acumen of the Apple Co-founder and icon. Through his product design, focus, and presentations, Steve Jobs had a profound impact not only on the Tech industry but also on many other fields such as marketing, showmanship, product design, architecture, poetry, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. This book is designed to help the young entrepreneurs and students of business understand what is important to consumers and related consumer experience

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

A Cappella Haitian Creole Music: Most Popular Haitian Church Hymns and Children's Choruses


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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

All You've Ever Needed To Know About Haitian Creole is Found in "Sa-k Pase? Learn Haitian Creole Textbook"


Joseph J. Charles, M.S.
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5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
140 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1451536119
ISBN-10: 1451536119
BISAC: Foreign Language Study / Creole Languages

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SakPaseLearnHaitianCreole
is designed to help beginning and intermediate learners of Haitian Creole get the support they need with the grammar, vocabulary, exercises and phonology of the language. The lessons cover various topics such as daily Haitian life, disaster relief language, family interactions, community life, shopping, medical care and polite or appropriate communication, schools and church activities.


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Josh C. Beckford's Fictional, Historical ebook: The Dead Hunt the Living (Zombie Apocalypse Part 1)

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Overview A very rich planter hired managers and overseers to run his best Saint Domingue plantations. Then he decided to travel to England, France, and Louisiana. As a rich planter, Scott Rockford did not want to stay in a colony that was going to change. His neighbors, afraid of maroons and zombie hunters, have already left for Cuba and New Orleans. Rockford wanted to raise enough money to start cutivating and harvesting cotton and sugarcane in Mississippi Delta. What will he do when the enslaved men and women brought by the new emigres joined the Dead who hunt the living. Will he ever return to St Domingue or will he start visiting Congo Square Slave Auction market or The Forks of the Road Slave Market at Natchez?

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Interesting Story Written and Read in English and Haitian Creole

Listen to the eye-witness audio story of 11-year-old Carline "Fear and Prayer in Chaotic Times: I saw my mother pulling Jesus down to her from heaven." Part of this story was first serialized on twitter.com/hashtag/twitterfiction. It is the first twitterbook story to be published on AmazonKindle. Not only can you listen to it here but you can also purchase the accompanying text from Kindle. For those of you who did not about the recent fiction festival that was held by Twitter. Writers were selected from many countries of the world. From November 28 to December 2, 2012, each one of them was presenting their story on twitter. The public was also invited to submit their own story. I joined in as a member of the general public with Carline's story.

"Fear and Prayer in Chaotic Times..." is now available on Amazon Kindle. Purchase a copy to follow the reading. It has become part of our 'English and Haitian Creole Reading Series.'

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

New Edition of Poetry Books for Holiday Shopping: "The Long Lost Garden of Eden" and "California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights"

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"California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights: Golden Vignettes From Big Sur, Pacific Coast Highway, California Scenic Highway 1 to Yosemite and Highway 99" is a book of poetry that focuses on the diversity of the people, the beauty of the land, bounty of agricultural products, entertainment industry, Pacific Coast beaches, and natural infrastructures and resources such as Big Sur, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Scenic Highway 1, San Francisco Bridge etc. These poems compel you to meditate on all the common things that tend to show our interdependence and sameness. Poems such as 'Abrahamic Promise,' 'Bridges of California,' 'Autumn's Bare Limbs,' 'Cry Over Manzanar,' 'Pastoral Delights,' 'Freeway and Highway Crosses,' 'Harvesting Delights and Fall Transition,' 'Open Range...,' 'Roosting Marvels, Roosting Headache,' 'Tamales for the Holidays' are among those that will strike a personal chord with most of you.

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This book is an eclectic collection of poems and short essays on California's people and landscape, wine, beach and car culture. Wordsworth summarizes my poetic affinity, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights deals with this expansive, rich and fertile landscape in a way that readers will quickly recognize the important landmarks, features and attributes of the Golden state. It pinpoints areas of appreciation and highlights important cultural contributions and activities of the various ethnic and minority groups forming this new frontier, Central California. "Our hills and farmland are blooming with new houses and commercial buildings bordering fields of grazing cows." This is an uplifting and thought-provoking work.

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This book was previously released in 2003 with these cover pictures. Familiarize yourself with the title of the book!

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The Long Lost Garden of Eden is a tribute to the fruit growers of the Central Valley of California and all other agriculture-derived industries. Mr. Charles remains true to his upbringing deeply rooted in agribusiness. This book is the result of his keen observations and 12-year research into what makes the San Joaquin Valley one of the most fertile lands in the country. His poems will give you a glimpse of the Central Valley's diversity. His research has culminated into the realization that the Central Valley of California, locked between Southern and Northern California, is the fruit basket of the world. This collection will engage your mind and soul. It will provoke deep reflection that will lead to enlightenment, positive attitude and spiritual renewal. The themes of these poems are universal. Artistic appreciation, hope, beauty, love, loss, hard work, self-improvement, despair, migration, and drought are all themes anybody can relate to, irrelevant of their origins and taste.

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Author's Notes: Mr. Charles is the sole author of "The Long Lost Garden of Eden."He knows nothing about this guy named 'Brendan Conlee' who has published the book as a paperback on many online sites including ebay.com, amazon.com, abebooks.com, bookfinder.com, shopping.com, barnesandnoble.com, allbookstores.com, dealtime.com, abebooks.co.uk, chegg.com, bestsellingbooks.biz, bookbyte.com, swap.com, tower.com, biggerbooks.com. If and when you buy a copy of this book published by or associated with 'Brendan Conlee,' you are just supporting a plagiarist. Mr. Charles has not received a response from the previous publisher, PublishAmerica.com, which certifies that the book has been out of print since December 27, 2009 due to the expiration of the contract. Despite this aggressive marketing of the book published on all the above sites, Mr. Charles has not received any royalties. It is fair to suggest that 'Brendan Conlee' who claims to be a co-author of "The Long Lost Garden of Eden" has been receiving all the royalties. So stop buying the book if it is associated with him. Return the copies you had already bought. This way, you will help Mr. Charles, the true author of the book. Help stop plagiarism!!!!!Please help correct a major wrong!!!



Friday, November 23, 2012

Let's All Try Haitian Foods - Nou Tout, Ann Eseye Manje Manje Ayisyen - Todos Nosotros, Probemos la comida Haitiana

Yummy Haitian Foods: Ingredients That Make Haitian Foods So Yummy, So Delicious - S-ak Fè Manje Ayisyen Gou anpil Konsa (Yummy - Se Koupe Dwèt! - Literally it’s like finger-licking, finger-sucking, finger-cutting)

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Haitian Foods and Fruits Names: Haitian Creole Cuisine, Haitian Recipes etc..

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Vocabulary:

Pa boule manje a - do not burn the food

Parenn - sponsor, godfather

Koupe dwet - cut fingers

Souse dwet - suck fingers, lick fingers

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thanksgiving in Haitian Creole: Preparing Creole Turkey (Kodin), the Breadfruit (veritab) Story, and Haitian Meat Recipes

Thanksgiving in Haitian Creole: Creolizing the Turkey (Kodin), TonmTonm, the Breadfruit (veritab) Story, and Haitian Meat Recipes

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Vocabulary:


Bouyon Bèf - Beef Stew
Se vyann bèf ak tomat e piman bouk. Li gou anpil. (It is a flavorful, tasty beef with tomatoes and peppers.)

Diri kole / Diri ak Pwa - Riz et Pois - Haitian red beans and rice
Diri Olè - Haitian Rice Pudding - Arroz con Leche
Griyo - fried pork

Mayi Moulen (Mais moulu) - Haitian Cornmeal Mush

Thanksgiving Vocabulary:

Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulin
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie
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On the Menu - Sur La Table - Sa N’ap Sèvi
Non Resèt Ayisyen - Names of Haitian Recipes - Les Noms des Recettes Haitiennes - Los Nombres de las Recetas Haitianas

Bannann Peze - Haitian twice-fried green plantains
Bananes Pesées (French)Thanksgiving Vocabulary:

Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulen
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie
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On the Menu - Sur La Table - Sa N’ap Sèvi
Non Resèt Ayisyen - Names of Haitian Recipes - Les Noms des Recettes Haitiennes - Los Nombres de las Recetas Haitianas

(While cooking and sharing Haitian foods with my college roommates from Central America and South America, I learned many things. I made a few discoveries. When we compared our foodstuffs, we found out they are just the same things but they come with different names)

For example: Start with these two ingredients, green plantains, not the bananas we eat!


Vocabulary - Vocabulaire - Mo Nouvo (New words)

Bannann Peze - Haitian twice-fried green plantains (Use the green plantains to make bannann peze, not the bananas)
Bananes Pesées (French)

Lwildoliv / Lwil doliv - Olive oil (use it to fry the smashed plantain...add a little bit of salt)


Ripe Banana and Plantains:

Fig (ripe banana) ak Bannann (green plantains)

My Central American, Peruvian, Venezuelan College mates helped me get this information:
Tostones is bannann peze. It is a snack or side dish in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

Patacones is bannann peze in some Central American countries. My Venezuelan friend told me it is known as Patacones there.
Notes: You will need a tostonera to flatten the plantains before their second frying. According to my Dominican friend, any flat surface, a glass or a small plate will do too. I have even seen her using a bowl to flatten the plantain chunks.



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Thanksgiving in Haitian Creole: Creolizing the Turkey (Kodin), Breadfruit (veritab) Story, and Haitian Meat Recipes

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Vocabulary:

Bouyon Bèf - Beef Stew
Se vyann bèf ak tomat e piman bouk. Li gou anpil. (It is a flavorful, tasty beef with tomatoes and peppers.)

Diri kole / Diri ak Pwa - Riz et Pois - Haitian red beans and rice
Diri Olè - Haitian Rice Pudding - Arroz con Leche
Griyo (Grillots) - Yummy, Tasty, flavorful cubes of glazed, fried pork
These cubes are often soaked for an hour or so in sour orange marinade, then slow-roasted until they become tender. Then fry them in oil until they look caramelized. Yummy!
Mayi Moulen- Haitian Cornmeal Mush

Thanksgiving Vocabulary:
Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulen
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie

Tasty - gou anpil

Flavorful - Gen bon ode, santi bon

Yummy - Se koupe dwèt!
Yummy - Dlo koule nan bouch!
Yummy - Bouch lolo!




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credits: thanks to Rose and author Madame Sarah Levine!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

1802-1803: Pauline Bonaparte’s St Domingue Stay, Parisian High Society and Voodoo Exploits. Fire! Fire Everywhere in St. Domingue! (A Short Historical Novel by Kevin Levin)


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"1802-1803: Pauline Bonaparte’s St Domingue Stay, Parisian High Society and Voodoo Exploits (A Short Historical Novel by Kevin Levin)". Fire! Fire Everywhere in St. Domingue! Married to Napoleon Bonaparte's right-hand man, General Leclerc, Pauline did not have much of a choice other than to board the ship that would seal her fate at St Domingue. Josephine de Bauharnais, her sister-in-law, won that round.

Having been combat-hardened by serving at one time or another under the flags of the Spanish and English forces battling the French for the control of the richest colony in the world, the few black rebel leaders (General Maurepas, Henri Christophe, Alexandre Petion, Capois La Mort, Biassou, Jean Francois, Dessalines, etc) quickly realized that they had to enter the phase of a total war - total change from the bottom up or a revolution.

On that cauldron that was St. Domingue (currently Haiti), the most beautiful woman of Europe had to devise ways to occupy herself. Pauline set out to conquer the men or soldiers who were fighting in her husband's army. She joined the high Parisian society in order to throw lavish parties in Le Cap and Port-au-Prince. But when she caught something and got sick, she let her friends introduce her to a slave voodoo priest and Voodoo priestess who came to perform an exorcism on her body. She confessed that she secretly loved some of the black generals, Toussaint and others, for their courage and determination.

Suspicious of his wife's dangerous liaisons and feelings for Toussaint L'Ouverture, Governor-General Leclerc invited him to dinner where the black general and his men were ambushed. Embarking the ship that would take him away, Toussaint L’Ouverture, the First of the Blacks, proclaimed, “In capturing me, you have only cut down the trunk of the tree of Black people’s freedom. It will spring up again by the roots because they are deep and numerous..”. The Black rebel leaders had to act upon the prophecy of Toussaint who was ambushed, summarily judged, condemned at a Fort-de-Joux tribunal and subsequently sent to the cold mountain of France to die. In his last days, he only had the loyalty of his servant who had been with him along. He made sure to hold his head and ease the passing of that great man, lover of freedom and equality, and a formidable avenger of the New World.

"Nous sommes tous les enfants de la Liberte," Said Jean-Jacques Dessalines who was at one time or another an English, Spanish, and French citizen before becoming a Haitian after freeing and renaming St. Domingue.



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Friday, September 28, 2012

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"

Authors, Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin, have done a great job writing this novella in Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English. Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People:Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè. It is based on the plasticity and richness of the Haitian folklore. Two of the most recognizable characters of Haitian folktales play a central role in this story.

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In this novella, the authors show Bouki's desperation and push factors contributing to his agreement with a sleek, sophisticated local criminal and people smuggler / trafficker known as 'Captain Katastwòf Natirèl.' Bouki was deep in debts because he wanted to maintain a lifestyle he could not afford on the meager catches of a fisherman. Caught and deported several times by U.S. Border and Coast Guard, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl (Captain Natural Catastrophe) was on a black list. Bouki thought he was smart enough to pull this trip on his own. He refused to be known as the butt of his brother's jokes, a simpleton, a fool. He did not want Malis, his intellectual brother, to know about the details of that trip. All the while, Malis never hesitated to put him down and make him realize that he needed his expertise, language skills, and critical thinking.

Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin interweave elements of the Haitian culture in this remarkable Haitian Creole, Spanish, English novella. Things must have been really harsh in Haiti if these two famous characters of the Haitian folklore finally decide to leave the country on a perilous raft to cross illegally to the U.S. shores. When faced with an upcoming storm, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl led his crew to Santiago, Cuba to seek temporary refuge. He forced everybody to learn Spanish in order to pass for Cuban refugees. Will Booki, Malis and Captain Katastwòf Natirèl make it to the dry grounds of Florida?

This story is set against the backdrop of Haiti's devastated agriculture, political upheavals, insecurity, presence of UN troops or Minustah, series of natural disasters such as hurricanes and 2010 earthquake, barren lands and tree-less mountaintops causing widspread floodings, destroyed ecology, infrastructures and educational institutions with a local population that depends more and more on imported goods and used clothes euphemistically known as 'pèpè.'

In this novella, the authors also implicate and relate the complicity of the catholic church whose priest, Father Francois, refuses to use Haitian Creole and French in his mass in his dogged efforts to cater to a dwindling but rich and powerful group of Latin language enthusiasts, les Bourgeois Commercants Mulattres (native Haitians of Syrian, Lebanese and.. descent). He did not heed Professor Malis' advice to start leading mass in Creole just like the Voodoo priests and protestant churches do all over the country with great success. What's worse is that Father Francois never said a word or raisee his stubby pinky finger against the clandestine smuggling and chaperoning of Haitian children who took these rickety boats to get reunited with their parents in Miami. Sister Marie Lafontant made her money chaperoning children and paid the priest under the table without counting her generous tithes to the church.

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè" is a book that will make you laugh and cry in the same sentence or paragraph. This book should be a required reading for anybody who wants to understand Haiti and the 'Boat People' phenomenon. Definitely, it should be required reading for any NGO, tourist, international workers in Haiti. It should be a required reading for any sociology students. This novella is edited by Prof. Joseph J. Charles

Now you can find out whether Bouki shows any signs of intelligence here:

"Excerpt from "Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People.."

“They said that I am supposed to pass the shark test too,” Bouki said to Malis.

“What are you talking about?” Malis asked.

“I was told that it is a test developed by the American authorities to separate Cubans from Haitians. They say that sharks like Haitians’ blood and flesh. They eat Haitian migrants whose boats capsize in high seas between Haiti and Bahamas. “

“Come on, Bouki, think straight. Respect yourself. It looks like you are losing your consciousness, you are coming in and out of consciousness. It appears that the waves of the sea and the crossing made you lose your mind. Americans are not like that! Where can they find these sharks?”

“Malis, I am not crazy. You always think I am crazy!”

“Crazy people hold this kind of talk!”

“I am a fisherman, but I am afraid of sharks. Their teeth are like saws.”

“Hello Bouki, you are no longer on the ocean now. You are on firm U.S. soil!”