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Global: International Creole Month

Fabienne Flessel · 15:18, October 23rd, 2009 · Sub-Saharan Africa , Americas

lingua → fr · es · zhs · zht · bn

October has become the month of the worldwide celebration of Creole language and the Creole blogosphere is paying attention. 2 comments · read »

Martinique: Celebrating Aimé Césaire

Fabienne Flessel · 15:55, April 22nd, 2009 · Americas

lingua → fr · bn · es · mg

It is with great reverence that Martinican bloggers celebrated the first anniversary of the death of Aimé Césaire, who passed away on April 17th 2008. 0 comments · read »

Stories

November 2nd, 2009

French Caribbean: “La Toussaint”

Fabienne Flessel · 23:23 · Americas

lingua → es · fr

In the French-speaking Caribbean, celebrating "La Toussaint", All Saints' and All Souls' Days, are as much an opportunity for family reunions as the Christmas season is. Here is a review of what the blogosphere says about it this year... 0 comments · read »

May 28th, 2009

Guadeloupe: In May 2009, keep May 1802 and May 1967 in mind

Fabienne Flessel · 15:55 · Americas , Western Europe

lingua → fr · es

2009 will definitely be a "new" year in Guadeloupe - at least judging from a pun that people used as their New Year's wish, since in Creole "new" is pronounced "nef" and "nine" is also pronounced "nef". The first social movements in December 2008 foreshadowed the massive mobilization which took place from January until March 2009, which resulted in 45 days of an all-out strike on the island. Although an agreement was signed, the situation still has not been properly settled - and May, traditionally a month of protest in the French and Guadeloupean social history, is particularly hot this year. 0 comments · read »

Links about French Creoles

October 30th, 2009

Americas

Sammuel from Thanks for loving Haiti has launched [En/Fr/Fr Cr] a video contest for the best Haitian National Anthem singer. The best video will be chosen by the readers and the winner will probably be announced on January 1st 2010, National Independance day in Haiti.

October 28th, 2009

Americas

A video showing an interview of the famous French soccer player Thierry Henry in which he expresses his affiliation to Islam, has caught the attention of Martinican blogger Bondamanjak [Fr/Fr Cr] and triggered impassioned comments from readers.

Sub-Saharan Africa

In the midst of the International Creole Month, Guadeloupean blogger CaribCreoleOne discusses [Fr] the now official use of Creole language alongside French in all the administrative procedures and places, in the city of Le Port in Reunion.

September 7th, 2009

Americas

The first day of school was seriously challenged by Tropical Storm Erika: les Cantin en Guadeloupe [FR] expresses fear as the alert levels are raised, Critiqart Guadeloupe [FR] can't see the need for delaying the first day of school because of some rain and wind, and Shakazulu [FR CR] thinks that having school resume in early September doesn't take the local climate into account.

May 4th, 2009

Americas

In a photo-post, Guadeloupean Chien créole [Fr] blogs about the first massive demonstrations since the end of the recent social turmoil in the French West Indies: May Day celebration in Petit-Canal; meanwhile, Shakazulu [Guadeloupean Creole] reports on the number of demonstrators.