The singer Richard Cavé who signs his artistic proposals under the name of the group Kai, returned this summer, with a second album “Jijem”, including the hypnotic composition of “Nou pa moun ankò”. The interpreter of “Kriminèl” co-wrote this piece with the Haitian lyricist BIC, resulting in a soft and moving melody.

After having listened to “Nou pa moun ankò”, I measure the skill of the co-authors who, with simple words, refer us to what we have become, inhumans. The term “inhuman” is not used here in the sense of cruelty, but to “authentic values” defining the originality of Haitians, to the rejection of our Haitianness. To the essential questions: Who are we? What do we think we are, or what the other says we are?

Under this title, Richard Cavé describes the situation that the Haitians have allowed to settle. “We have lost our humanity,” he said as a cry from the heart. The artist reminds us unvarnished that we are showing inhumanity and transgressing the rules of the human bond. That we have annihilated what constitutes our identity, that we no longer find our pride, that we are acculturated, that we have lost our homeland left as a heritage by our ancestors, that we do not inherit the bravery of the heroes of the independence. That we designate the wrong representatives of the people, that we have missed out on the real fight and that we are no longer fighting to regain our dignity.

The hearts of this people have grown numb. The Haitian man of today no longer attaches importance to his neighbor, his neighbor, his family or his companion. The individualism of our time and the money that grabs us a little more every day, take away our humanity. We have not sufficiently asserted what we are and what we want. We are naturally hostile to each other. Even within families, small “privilege” trials are learned, jealousies are expressed, bitterness is manifested.

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