Protest Music (Haïti)

Verbal communication in Haïti is full of subversive allusion and coded messages—part of a cultural practice referred to as mawonaj. Thus, almost anything spoken in Kreyôl—which Haïti's mother tongue but only was made an official language in 1987—can become a tool ...

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