Christophe Henry is my nom de plume. I will sign all my posts and articles by this pseudonym. The name of course is the inversion of King Henri Christophe’s name, with the spelling of the first name anglicized.
Appropriating the name of an admired historical figure is a common enough practice. I make no apologies, therefore, for assuming the cognomen of the greatest figure in Haitian history. In thus identifying with King Christophe, I merely wish to channel the spirit of the nation builder, of the Promethean man of vision and Nietzschean man of will. All in the hope that the Christophean ethos will pervade the land once again so that the Haitian people will rise phoenix-like from the ashes of their history.
Haunted by the Haitian conundrum, I have spent much of my adult life trying to understand why the great promise of Haiti’s historical genesis has not been fulfilled and to imagine by what means the Haitian people can achieve King Henri Christophe’s vision of a great and strong nation. The purpose of this blog is merely to light the pyre of ideas from which the Haitian phoenix can be reborn, a Christophean nation, autonomous, prosperous, proud.
Appropriating the name of an admired historical figure is a common enough practice. I make no apologies, therefore, for assuming the cognomen of the greatest figure in Haitian history. In thus identifying with King Christophe, I merely wish to channel the spirit of the nation builder, of the Promethean man of vision and Nietzschean man of will. All in the hope that the Christophean ethos will pervade the land once again so that the Haitian people will rise phoenix-like from the ashes of their history.
Haunted by the Haitian conundrum, I have spent much of my adult life trying to understand why the great promise of Haiti’s historical genesis has not been fulfilled and to imagine by what means the Haitian people can achieve King Henri Christophe’s vision of a great and strong nation. The purpose of this blog is merely to light the pyre of ideas from which the Haitian phoenix can be reborn, a Christophean nation, autonomous, prosperous, proud.
