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Dancers Clara Desportes and Simon Lavenaire in Fort de France during Emancipation Day celebrations in 2016. Courtesy of Gilles Ticaze Cazenave

May 20, 2022

The Martinican bèlè dance – a celebration of land, spirit and liberation

Camee Maddox-Wingfield, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

After years of marginalization, the bèlè dance has been embraced by a growing community who see it as a form of social and spiritual healing.

A special team on board a Dutch mission ship carrying out manoeuvres for capturing pirates at sea. EPA/Robin Utrecht

March 5, 2019

Somali piracy and countering other organised crimes at sea

Carina Bruwer, University of Cape Town

With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.

Still from the movie *Un rêve français* (“A French Dream”) by Christian Faure, which tells the story of a young Guadeloupean couple during a little-known, tragic time of French post-colonial history. Eloa Prod 2018

June 6, 2018

A French ‘Windrush’? When French Caribbeans were treated as second-class citizens

Antonia Wimbush, Université de Montpellier

Great Britain was not the only country behaving badly with its Caribbean population: France also experienced similar waves of post-war migration.

After Haiti signed its Declaration of Independence from France, in 1804, the U.S. started a nearly 60-year political and economic embargo that hobbled the young nation’s growth. Wikimedia

January 15, 2018

Donald Trump doesn’t understand Haiti, immigration or American history

Chantalle F. Verna, Florida International University

Trump’s anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.

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