THE CREATIVE WORK OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN MOTHER DÒWÒTI DÉSIR
A GeoSpiritual Journey
IN THE PRESS
Désir is called by God to speak truth to power, is an amazing interdisciplinary scholar and has the artistic lens that gives life to blank and invisible spaces. Wòch kase wòch reveals the third eye and brilliance of Sister Dòwòti. The essays animate Pan African epistemology and historiography that centers on the role of spirituality in the human community.
Dr. IVA CARRUTHERS, AUTHOR AND GENERAL SECRETARY OF
SAMUEL DeWITT PROCOTOR CONFERENCE
Redlining a Holocaust is a rigorously researched oeuvre that establishes Dòwòti Désir as one of the most important figures in contemporary African Thought. Redlining is an imaginative and monumental undertaking, a literary, visual and oratorical (the author's words speak to us) that responds to the centuries-long genocide, impugnment, and neglect of Africans (blacks) globally.
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2020/04/19/book-reviewcurating-the-history-of-a-people/
Dr. GLENNVILLE ASHBY
AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SPIRITUAL MASTER
In addition to telling our story Goud kase goud is a magnificent display of over 70 photographs of our Maafa. Thus for her distinguished and appropriately documented book on our historical experience along with her distinguished photography, Désir warrants a Pulitzer Prize for Goud kase Goud.
Dr. PATRICK DELICES
RESEARCHER, WRITER
BIO
Her Majesty Queen Mother Dòwòti Désir of the Royal Palace of Dada Daagbo Hounon Houna II Guely, is the Founder and President of, The AfroAtlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Queen Mother is the Kpodjito (Reine Mate of the King). An interfaith leader and Manbo Asogwe (High Priest) in Haitian Vodou, Her Majesty is an independent scholar, human rights activist, educator, curator, photographer, and author. She has traveled extensively documenting the historic sites, memorials, and monuments of the transatlantic slave trade in captive Africans. From 2017-2018, she served as the designated UNESCO Desk Review Expert for the New Approaches and Interpretations to Slavery Museums and Sites International Conference. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, she received her Master of Arts degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and conferred her Doctorate of Ministry from The New Seminary in interfaith studies in 2020. Reference www.queenmotherd2h2.net, www.hounonhouna2.org and www.maafamemories.com, #QueenMotherDowoti.