Radio Eugène Godfried International web site launched 10/30/06: www.regiradio.org
Many shows now available!

Many videos, including one on The Independents of Color

Reforma Agrario I Peska I nos SEU, Curaçao, 7/3/08 Papiamentu

Interview with Eugène Godfried: Call for dialog on the 1912 Massacre, 10/5/07 Entrevista con Eugène Godfried: una llamada para el dialogo sobre la masacre de 1912, 5/10/07

Eugene Godfried Calls on Fidel Castro for Reflection and Action concerning the 1912 Massacre: YouTube Video, 9/07

Video sobre El Doce: Eugene Godfried Ruega a Fidel Castro Reflexion y Accion sobre 1912, 9/07

Eugene Godfried's "Broadening Black participation in Revolutionary Cuba (1986-2006)" presented at the 32nd Conference of the Association for Caribbean Studies, 6/2007

Plessy vs Ferguson and the Caribbean, 10/14/06

Research Scholar at Michigan State University, African Atlantic Research Team, 9/15/06 US Tour taking shape for 2006-2007

Words of thanks on the occasion of my illness, 9/06

Eugene Godfried on Africa Kabisa Radio, live & on the Internet, 4 shows in Oct 05

Fund raiser for Eugene in Boston/Jamaica Plain, MA, showing of Race in Cuba, 2/27/05

Contacting Eugène Godfried

Eugène Godfried
community organizer, music producer,
and radio journalist
Director, Caribbean Division, Radio Havana

Eugène Godfried is a community organizer, music producer, and radio journalist. For the past twenty-six years he has worked with Caribbean nations to promote ideas and actions regarding popular culture and Caribbean identity. He is currently Director of the Caribbean Division of Radio Havana, Cuba and has a show, Caribbean Outlook, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Born in the nation of Curacao Dutch Antilles, Mr. Godfried began his education in catholic primary schools of his homeland and took his higher degree in Holland in social services with emphasis on culture and community organizing. He speaks seven languages and is intimately familiar with most nations of the Caribbean.

Mr. Godfried served a four year term as president of the farmers’ cooperative of Curacao. He has worked with local Caribbean communities as an organizer and with labor unions throughout the region. He is directly responsible for organizing the recognition and celebration of the first rebellion of enslaved Africans in Curacao, accomplished in 1795.

Eugène Godfried is equally a specialist on celebrations of Carnival as expressed in Caribbean and Latin American nations. He participated in the September 1998 world conference on carnival held in Hartford, Connecticut. He is producer and promoter for the Cuban group Conjunto Chappottín y sus Estrellas. The thirteen group members are direct musical and ancestral descendants of AfroCuban musicians responsible for perfecting and popularizing the musical complex known as son. Mr. Godfried was responsible for the designation of the group as a National Treasure of the Cuban people.

Conjunto Chappottín y sus Estrellas are sons, grandsons, and other relatives of musicians who gave notoriety to this popular dance music tradition. As producer and promoter of the Conjunto, Eugene Godfried is committed to insuring that audiences of the world understand son as authentic Cuban, cultural creation. He has promoted the music complex as  well as Conjunto Chappottín y sus Estrellas throughout the Caribbean.

Mr. Godfried is a professional journalist. Currently, he is director of the Caribbean section of Radio Havana Cuba International and conductor of Caribbean programming for Radio Progresso, also of Havana, Cuba.

While visiting the United States in April, 1999, to promote people to people cultural dialogue through his weekly radio programs, Eugene Godfried was a visiting scholar in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has lectured in classes at the school of journalism and broadcast interviews with students, faculty, and community persons through the short wave link with Radio Havana Cuba; including one such interview in the cyber space studio at the university.

Eugène Godfried is also interested in the US African American community and its civil rights movement. He enrolled with Dr. Vincent Harding in the course religion and human transformation offered by the Iliff Theological seminary in Denver, Colorado.

Interviewed by AIN, Warmongering and National Security Top Bush Electoral Platform, 9/3/02 "Eugene Godfried, a journalist from Radio Havana Cuba currently in New York City, was interviewed by phone on the impact of the Republican Convention. He noted that amidst a setting of panic and terror, the event exalts Bush as the commander-in-chief of a country at war, while playing down social and economic issues closer to the public interest. Godfried added that the Bush administration is terrorizing the public as a smokescreen, while ignoring the massive street protests against the war in Iraq and its meddling in the affairs of Caribbean and Latin American and Caribbean countries."

Interviewed by Granma in "Bush out!", 9/2/04 "Contacted by phone in New York by Miguel Angel Masjuán, a Radio Havana Cuba journalist, Eugene Godfried explained that the Bush government has created the phantom notion of possible acts of terrorism. The convention is being staged around the image of Bush as the only man able to halt terrorism."

Radio Havana program hours for Eugene Godfried's show Caribbean Outlook

Eugene's Jan - Feb 2001 US tour

Godfried Lecture Series

Letter on Salsa vs Son

Contacting Eugene Godfried

Chappottín y sus Estrellas

Eugene Godfried on Africa Kabisa Radio, live & on the Iinternet, 10/05

Writings

Cuban Music & Culture

Cuban Popular Music: Renewal Efforts From Above, 9/04

The African Cuban Diaspora’s Cultural Shelters and Their Sudden Disappearance in 1959,  8/04

Dialogue with Juan Cruz, Past President, ‘Marianao Club Social’ - La Havana, 8/19/04

Dialogue with Founding Leaders of Guantanamo’s Social Club ‘La Nueva Era’, 8/6/04

La Protesta de Baragua: Culture and Popular Music Have the Last Word -- They Say What the Official Culture Can’t, 8/04

Buena Vista Social Club: Critics, self-criticism, and the survival of Cuban Son, 11/00


Cuba & Race

Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Cuba, 6/04

Reflections On Race And The Status Of People Of African Descent In Revolutionary Cuba, 1/01

Cuba en una perspectiva caribeña, 2/01    Cuba in a Caribbean Perspective, 6/00


1912

La Prensa Guantanamera y la Masacre de 1912 en Cuba, 44p,  PDF 1 MB, 1/04

Dialogue with Ricardo Riquenes Herrera on the Partido Independiente de Color & the 1912 Massacre of Blacks in Guantánamo, Cuba, 2/07  Eugène Godfried Dialogando con Ricardo Riquenes Herrera sobre el Partido Independiente De Color y la Masacre de 1912 en Guantánamo, Cuba, 7/07

La Maya y la Masacre de 1912: Eugène Godfried En Dialogo Con Maritza Elias, 11/04   Dialogue With Maritza Elias: On the Massacre of 1912 in La Maya, Cuba, 10/07

Quintín Bandera y su asesinato traicionero: preludio inevitable para la creacion del Partido Independiente de Color,  9/05

Alto Songo: Son in popular culture & history, resistance & liberation, 7/04

The Wars of Independence

Guillermón Moncada and the Defeat of ‘Rancheador’- Slavehunter - Miguel Pérez Céspedes Of Guantánamo, 5/05      Guillermón Moncada: Vencedor del Rancheador Miguel Pérez Céspedes de Guantánamo, 5/05

Dialogue With Magdalena Cantillo Frometa: On Mariana Grajales Coello, “Mother Of The Cuban Nation,” 4/15/05   Dialogo Con Magdalena Cantillo Frometa Sobre Mariana Grajales Coello “Madre De La Patría Cubana,” 15/4/05

Dialogue In Santiago De Cuba With Joel Mourlot Mercaderes On Antonio Maceo y Grajales “Freedom Worker” by Eugène Godfried, 11/04    Dialogo En Santiago De Cuba Con Joel Mourlot Mercaderes: Antonio Maceo y Grajales, de Eugène Godfried, 11/04

José Martí i Rasismo - Su Bishita na Kórzou, Papiamento version of José Martí and Racism: His Visit to Curaçao, 11/2005 José Martí and Racism: His Visit to Curaçao, 7/04   José Martí y el Racismo: Su Visita a Curazao, 7/04

Early Cuban History

CARLOTA: Lukumí/Yoruba Woman Fighter for Liberation, Massacred in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1844,  7/06  CARLOTA: luchadora lukumí/yoruba para la liberación, masacrada en Matanzas, Cuba, en 1844, 7/06

Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés – Plácido 9/05 English   Placido Martir, 9/05 (español)

Maroons and Palenques in Guantanamo Province - Godfried interviews Diego Bosch Ferrer, historian, Director of Cultural Patrimony, Guantánamo Province, 7/04


Bolivar - Gran Colombia

Carlos Manuel Piar And Pedro Luis Brion: Curaçaoans Struggling Together With Simon Antonio Bolivar y Palacios For Liberation From Colonialism And Racism, 9/06  Carlos Manuel Piar, Pedro Luis Brión Yunanan Di Kòrsou Huntu Ku Simón Bolĺvar y Palacios Den Lucha Kontra Kolonismo I Rasismo, 9/06

José Leonardo Chirino - Josef Caridad Gonzales, African Venezuelan Fighters of the 1795 Revolution, by Eugène Godfried, 10/05     José Leonardo Chirino y Josef Caridad Gonzales, Luchadores africanos venezuelanos de la gran revolucion de 1795, por Eugène Godfried, 10/05     José Leonardo Chirino Et Josef Caridad Gonzales, Chefs africains venezuelens de la revolution libertaire de 1795, de Eugène Godfried, 10/05  


Curaçao

Reforma Agrario I Peska I nos SEU, 7/3/08 (Papiamentu)

Abolition & Liberation In Curaçao , 7/06   Abolishon i Liberashon na Korsou, 7/06 (Papiamentu)

20 Years Agrarian & Fisheries Reform Call In Curaçao  7/12/06  20 Aňa Reforma Agrario I Peska, Papiamentu, 7/12/06

Miscellaneous Topics

Plessy vs Ferguson and the Caribbean, 10/06

CERTIFICADO DE PARTICIPACIÓN

   Se concede este certificado a Eugene Godfried por su distinguida participación y la presentación de su trabajo, “Broadening Black participation in Revolutionary Cuba (1986-2006)”, en la 32ª Conferencia de la Asociación de Estudios Caribeños realizado del 28 de mayo al 1 de junio de 2007 en Salvador da Bahia, Brasil.