Music
Rara: the music of the road
Bamboo trumpets, drums, and miles of walking: every Easter season, rara bands turn Haiti’s roads into a moving festival.
Blog
Culture, people, history, and politics: Haiti in its own words.
Culture
Soup joumou: the taste of freedom
Every 1 January, Haitians around the world share the same squash soup. Here is why.
Politics
How Haiti is governed: a guide to the 1987 Constitution
President, Prime Minister, Parliament, and ten departments: how the Haitian state is designed to work.
Music
Kompa: the heartbeat of Haiti
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1955, kompa is the sound of Haitian weddings, festivals, and Sunday afternoons everywhere.
People
Toussaint Louverture: from slavery to statesman
Born enslaved near Cap-Français, he became the general and governor who made freedom impossible to undo.
History
Ayiti before 1492: the land of the Taíno
Long before it was a colony, the island had a name, five chiefdoms, and a people whose words we still use today.