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Benito Sylvain
1media/Benito_Sylvain.jpgmedia/Benito_Sylvain2_enhanced.png2024-09-05T14:10:42-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd23214342Haitian founder and editor of La Fraternitéplain2024-11-19T15:08:39-05:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Benito Sylvain was naval officer from Port-de-Paix in northern Haiti. He settled in Paris in the 1880s and began studying law. In 1890, he founded the first Haitian newspaper in Paris, La Fraternité. He went on to be a major figure in early Pan-Africanism. In 1900, he helped organize the first Pan-African Conference in London. He visited Ethiopia multiple times beginning in 1897, making him perhaps the first Haitian to travel to Africa. He was also involved in many cultural and academic activities in Paris. He established groups for international students, including the Black Youth Organization, and was an active member of the Ethnological Society, where he gave many public presentations on European colonialism and African cultures.
1media/Georges_Sylvain-1909.jpgmedia/Georges_Sylvain-1909.jpg2024-09-05T14:26:08-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232AuthorsMatt Robertshaw35Meet the men and women who wrote for the papervisual_path2024-11-20T12:07:58-05:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232