Daily News | Haitian Creole classes serve as connection to heritage for Philly Haitian diaspora
Haitian culture was all around Alain Joinville when he was growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
The Zoom classes Joinville came across during the pandemic were the first opportunity he found in his adult life to constructively relearn his native language. Opportunities to learn Haitian Creole are growing — including in Philadelphia — which Haitian Americans say is a reflection of the diaspora reclaiming their roots, but also a postcolonial reclamation of pride specifically in their Black, Indigenous roots.
“It’s the importance of communication and connection,” Sylvain said. “Our Haitian Creole is communicated with English mixed in it because we’re not fluent — having an opportunity to really be able to communicate myself personally as well as give other people the opportunity to do so meant a lot to me.”
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