This is a recording of the School of Historical, Philosophical an Religious Studies' Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Leslie Alexander giving her public talk on November 21, 2019.

Excellent Lecture on characteristics of Melanin

Here is the step by step video of our baling process, a process that any farmer can bring on with few local materials and usual manpower!

Step 1- Prepare the ropes in the right position in our wooden box ;
Step 2- Filling the wooden box with our hay and step on it to press it well;
Step 3- Tightening the ropes edges as we are "packing" the bale;
Step 4- Pull out of the box our well tighten bale and store it!

With this method, our bales of brachiaria grass can be stored for 3 years and more, ready to be used when we will need to feed our cows!

Victoria "Toya" Montou (died 1805) was a female soldier and freedom fighter in the army of Jean-Jacques Dessalines during the Haitian Revolution. Toya Montou was not the only woman to serve in the Haitian army during the revolution, other exceptions are Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére, who served at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in 1802, and Sanité Belair.
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Before the revolution, Montou had worked alongside Dessalines as a slave. She was described as intelligent and energetic, and shared a close relationship with Dessalines and the same hatred toward slavery. Although she is not related by blood, Dessalines always introduced her as his aunt and affectionately called her Mantou. Due to Dessalines' mother dying in childbirth and his father being sold to another plantation, she raised him and his two older brothers, Louis and Joseph Duclos, who would later adopt the last name Dessalines after Haiti's Independence.
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During the Haitian Revolution, she fought as a soldier in active service; on at least one documented occasion, she commanded soldiers in action during battle. In 1804, Dessalines became emperor. When Montou was dying, the emperor demanded the doctor to treat her as he would him, and stated that Toya was his aunt who had shared his feelings since before the revolution. She was given a state funeral with a procession of eight sergeants and Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse.
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#negritude #PanAfricanism #Haiti #Ayiti #Africa #Alkebulan  #colonialism #imperialism #jeanjacquesdessalines #bayyinahbello #HaitianRevolution✊🌍🌎✊▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ In the video is Bayyinah Bello giving a brief description of Victoria Montou's life, and shaping the man who would become Haiti's greatest hero

Adodo and Kambon pikni lingk-op a JamRock fi Aagos Ivlin!