Haitian Students Host Exhibition to Mark the Anniversary of the Final Battle of the Haitian Revolution

An exhibition dubbed The Celebration of Haiti takes place on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 2:15 pm at N4 in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Mona. The Exhibition marks The Battle of Vertieres that is the final Battle of the Haitian Revolution on November 18, 1803. The Exhibition is being organized by the Haitian Association at UWI, Mona which consists of a group of twenty-five students of the State University of Haiti who are completing the final year of their degree programme at the Mona Campus as part of the UWI/ Haiti Initiative.
The event will consist of an exhibition, a panel discussion with UWI, Mona Lecturers, Dr. Mathew Smith, Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology and Dr. Marie-Jose Nzengou-Tayo, Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. There will also be a sampling of Haitian cuisine. The event is sponsored by the Department of History and Archaeology, UWI, Mona.
The university community and the public are invited.