Èzili Dantò
Storyteller, human rights lawyer, award-winning playwright, and performance poet. Now serializing TOYA, a three-season screenplay epic based on the Hayti Revolution, presented with immersive multimedia including images, and short video illustrations.
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Toya Enters Makandal’s Luminous Mountain World (opens the original)
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Hello Folks,Here’s a sneak peek of Episode 2 — and what a journey it’s been.A Hidden Mountain World CivilizationIn Episode 2, Toya enters Makandal’s Mountain World — a hidden civilization carved into the heart of the winding Masif di Nò mountains. A Mountain World of secret maroon societies dedicated to creating a common consciousness among Black captives from many different Afrikan countries. Makandal teaches them how to sacrifice the individual for the many and the patience to move like the mo
Boukman’s Prayer, Inan’s Call to Action (opens the original)
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Boukman’s Prayer (In Haytian Kreyòl and in English. Text of the prayer is also below.)On August 14, 1791, beneath an old, gnarled and sacred Kayimit tree at Bò Kay Manbo Inan—remembered today as Bwa Kayiman—enslaved Afrikans, maroons, healers, messengers, military organizers, market women, plantation rebels, and spiritual authorities gathered for the Vodun war council and ceremony that would launch to Hayti Revolution.Rain fell. Torches burned. Lighting flashed. Thunder roared. The people listen
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