BRIDGING WATERS: FROM HAITI TO AFRICA,A JOURNEY HOME : Ambassador Jean PILLARD, Speech delivered at the WHELAN RESEARCHACADEMY, in Owerri, Nigeria.
NDEWO – Onè/Réspè is what we say in Haiti. You welcome me with open heart, I shall enterwith openheart. Before I address you all today, I carry the heavy heart of Haitian folklore thatdreams of “AfrikGinen — Lòt Bò Dlo”- our ancestral Africa—acrossthe sea, a place said to bereached only in death. Yet here I