#iamhaitianchallenge I am Haitian 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 The Haitian New Year's Day tradition of soup joumou or pumpkin soup is said to date back to January 1, 1804, the day Haitian slave and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from its French colonizers. Haitian slaves were forbidden from drinking soup joumou. It was a delicacy reserved for their white masters. To celebrate Haiti's liberation, the soup became a symbol for freedom. When I’m drinking the soup, I f

La Dessalinienne (The Dessalines Song) is the national anthem of Haiti, honoring Haiti's revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines. It was written by Justin Lhérisson and composed by Nicolas Geffrard and adopted in 1904. ----------- To commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, a competition was held for a national anthem in 1903. The poetic words of Justin Lhérisson and martial composition of Nicolas Geffrard won over the judges, which led to its official adoption as n

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