Author: fhadmin

Have you heard about the Haiti Memory Project? It is an oral history project hosted by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. The project consists of over one hundred recorded interviews with Haitian people who were living in Port-au-Prince in 2010. The personal narratives tend to focus on post-earthquake life.

“The interviews invite the listener to engage with the intimate and unexpected details of life in Port-au-Prince and to explore Haiti in an entirely new way.”

The archive of interviews is available online. Visit haitimemoryproject.org to learn more.

For those who haven’t read it already, we would like to call our visitors’ attention to a lovely op-ed written by Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jensen that was published by the New York Times in January. Titled “Haiti Can Be Rich Again,” the op-ed is a high level historical overview of Haiti’s “counter-plantation” system and discusses the value of small farms and agricultural self-reliance.

The op-ed may be found at the following url: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/opinion/haiti-can-be-rich-again.html

If the article leaves you wanting more, we highly recommend Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois for additional study.