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But what does it mean exactly to be Creole? Creole is something of an inheritance from the darkest times of history when the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Netherlanders decided to conquer the world especially Africa, the Americas and Asia.
They realised that it was not economical to the employ people in the colonised countries to take care of their farms, cultivate, works in the mines and so on.
Hence they decided that people from Africa were of a different colour and non-Christian therefore didn’t have a soul and could be submitted to slavery. We have made some short-cuts here but broadly the context is now set up.
Also, at that time there were some tribal wars in the west coast of Africa and the colonisers used these conflicts to buy slaves who would be brought to the Americas, the Caribbean islands and many other places as Reunion, Mauritius, Cap Verde, Madagascar….
Many died on the ships but many survived to live in atrocious conditions.
These slaves didn’t understand the language of their masters and were not literate. Also, they tried to replicate their words using what they could hear and adding elements of their own language.
This is how the various Creole languages are born as deformations of the coloniser’s language by the slaves.
Nowadays, various islands use Creole as main language at home or in the street whilst the language of he old coloniser is used at school, at work or in the administrations.
Amongst the places where people speak Creole you will have Reunion, Mauritius, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haïti, Cabo-Verde…
Creole are also the people who come from these places and are proud to be!
On Saturday Mr. Shakira invited us to a charity event organised by the United Haitians in the UK near Oval, South London.
This new organisation founded end 2008 aims to support the education of children in Haiti.
Haiti is a Caribbean island that obtained its independence from France in January 1804. Since then this Creole speaking nation has be stricken by many issues amongst them, dictatorship, corruption, poverty and natural catastrophes.
It is recovering from the floods caused by hurricanes in 2008.
Also, many artists, most of them from this island, South America and the two French islands of Guadeloupe, and Martinique came to give a hand raising funds for the children of Haiti.
The Band Ziloka from came set fire with there drums and sexy dancers. The traditional sounds of the ‘Gwo Ka’: big drum resonated in the hall and making children and parent dance.
Then Babyoul a Reggae band from the same islands imposed their melodious voices on very tropical melodies.
Finally came the Dancehall band Franglish connection, moving from hard-core dancehall to suave Ragga-zouk.
Franglish Connection : Somebody like me
Whilst the sound system wasn’t optimal these bands and the organisers deserve a big up for their work.
Later on Jerome went to distribute some flyer outside a big salsa party where he met some other friendly flyerers.
