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Early 1970s

Early 1970s: A debate broke out regarding the Kreyòl language involving young writers like Dieudonné Fardin and Franck Etienne.

Early 1970s: A debate broke out regarding the Kreyòl language involving young writers like Dieudonné Fardin and Franck Etienne. These intellectuals defended the use of Kreyòl against the French embassy’s claims that only the French language could modernize the masses.

Source  ·  p. 241 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 241