J. B. Aristide, the intellectual giant and Toussaint L'ouverture

Agent-x - March 16 2012, 11:58 AM

Jean Bertrand Aristide-JBA, the Haitian intellectual giant and the reincarnation of Toussaint L'ouverture did another intellectual feat or tour de force by publishing: Haiti-Haitii: Philosophical Reflections for Mental Decolonization [Paperback] by: Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Author)The intellectual community worldwide is buying this book like hot cake. Hurry up to buy it.

The following cooment is an excerpt from amazon.com:

In Haiti Haitii?

Jean-Bertrand Aristide combines the artistry of Swahili with the poetic incisiveness of his native Kreyol to produce an eloquent, resounding negation to colonialism and slavery, as well as an emphatic affirmation of freedom, liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Aristide writes in poetry, prose, proverbs, and aphorisms to tell the epic story of the life and freedom affirming spirit of Haiti, the world's first independent Black republic.

He chronicles slavery through a recitation of the brutality of the colonisers and the often mundane and trivial ways in which they attempted to dehumanize Haitians, positioning the reader in the place of the human beings who were at the receiving end of such inhumanity.

Aristide eloquently illustrates how Haitians 300-year journey to freedom was illuminated by the African philosophy of Ubuntu, a world view that embodies human solidarity, respect, dignity, justice, liberty, and love. In this philosophy, Africans found an unmatched strength to resist slavery.

Today, he writes, it is this same philosophy that can empower a new generation of Africans worldwide to resist neo-colonialism.

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Paule says...

me wi officiel B fok ou ekri yon liv en kreol koman pou vole san yo pa decouvriw. peyi ca pa ka ale okin kote apwe tout ca ou fe nan peyi ca ou rete... more »

Paule says...

me wi officiel B fok ou ekri yon liv en kreol koman pou vole san yo pa decouvriw. peyi ca pa ka ale okin kote apwe tout ca ou fe nan peyi ca ou rete... more »

Jean Pierre Alexandre says...

Aristide se yon mechan vakabon san konsyans ki tap fout't peri peyi Dayiti,kalam'bwe ya pa min'm kab panse ak sa ke li fwe mal. more »

Monel says...

Paul, one thing I've known since I was born,only imbecil,idio't and crazy people said whatever they want. nan lanj manman'w se moun ki pa kon li ak... more »