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On the final installment of Boukannen Dlo, we discuss the question we inevitably get when we return home to visit with friends and family: “How’s Haiti?” We’ve used the podcast to try to answer that question by presenting a few small slices of our own lives in Haiti, and this week we tackle that question head-on in our eighth and final episode.
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Thanks to Haitians’ love for soccer and the late rounds of the Champions League featuring top European clubs like Barcelona, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich, life in Port-au-Prince seems to stop and start with the whistles of matches being played thousands of miles away. This week we bring you to a small soccer stadium in our neighborhood to discuss Haitians’ love for the game, talk about how the sport manifests gender divides, and get a sense of Haiti’s sports culture.
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People visit Haiti for plenty of reasons—doctors on medical missions, volunteers on week-long trips, and friends of expats like us who come just to get a sense of life here. But when we heard a troupe of Norwegian circus performers were sailing toward the island to stay at our house, we figured it merited an interview. This week we speak with two of Haiti’s most unusual visitors about how their two years sailing the high seas led them to Haiti and how their purpose here differs from those of others who visit.
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On this week’s podcast we talk to two Haitian friends from our neighborhood, Jonas Pierre-Louis and Jean-Marc Vassa Joseph, about Haiti Positive, a book they’re working on that presents positive aspects of Haiti. We ask them about the book, their impressions of Americans and Europeans working to help Haitians, their thoughts on foreign journalists who cover Haiti, and their organization, ODUN, a Haitian-run scholarship program they helped establish to pay school fees for children.
