The strength of Hope, my journey: The beginning

2013-01-30T00:59:09-08:00By |Categories: Byb Chanel Bibene, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , |

Sunrise, one morning in June 1997: Students were readying themselves for school, workers for their jobs, merchants for their businesses in the city, in the markets, peddlers were at their usual occupations, the many unemployed, graduates with or without hope, were looking for work, students were on their way to school, and that's when everything happened, the explosions of heavy weapons that began a civil war that separated the inhabitants of the same nation, families, children from their mothers, fathers,