Ouvertures

The ghost of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian revolutionary leader, returns to wander around a new country, a completely different one: from the Port-au-Prince of today, devastated by an earthquake and eroded by endemic corruption, to the south coast of the island, where the mangroves are mere skeletons of their former selves since the passage of Hurricane Matthew. A poor country that still pays a high price for its independence and continues to endure many forms of recolonisation through ‘emergency aid’ policies.