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1917-06-13

Odette Roy Fombrun is born, and will spend a century arguing for konbitism

Haitian

Odette Roy Fombrun was born in Port-au-Prince on 13 June 1917, one of eleven children delivered by the same midwife. She was a writer and an educator, and she spent her long life pressing the idea she called konbitism, that Haitians should build through collective labour. Haiti named her a National Living Treasure in 2009. She lived to a hundred and five.

Source Researched: Le Nouvelliste