Awa Dlodlo
You can dress up but if your hair doesn’t look good it won’t work but if your hair looks good, you can wear anything and it will work” says Mercy Kwateng Amanin as she explains the philosophy that has kept Mama Africa Beauty Supply in business for the past ten years. (more…)
Have the Haitian people lost a part of their identity on January 12th? We now know that the earthquake took the lives of more than one hundred thousand people and changed for ever the lives of those who survived. It also destroyed, in a matter of seconds, a part of the country’s history; its works of art, its archival materials and its architectural heritage. The Roots team wants to know what you think. (more…)
Montreal, January 11, 2010 – Host Rebecca Makonnen has just been appointed the spokesperson for ROOTS, Radio Canada International’s new national media creativity competition. She’ll be urging Canadians and permanent residents to participate, using sound and visuals to express how they feel about their history and origins, highlighting their contribution to the great Canadian mosaic. (more…)
Sorine Coupet
It’s been a great year for Canadian football! Actually, I mean soccer. I mean the sport that makes the whole world go wild. The whole world? Well… not exactly.
Because soccer – as we call it here in North America, even though ‘football’ would be the more appropriate term to describe what’s happening on the field – isn’t a big part of our sports culture…yet! Because, as I was saying, it’s been a great year for Canadian soccer as the Montreal Impact won the United Soccer League Championship for the third time in its history, proving once more that if real enthusiasm for the sport has yet to reach Canadian crowds, talent is however, well-established. (more…)
An Interview with Dezsö Horvath, Dean of the Schulich School of Business
Sorine Coupet
When Dezsö Horvath arrived in Canada in the 1970s, he discovered a country with a diversity of cultures and a great tolerance for difference. He figured Canada had everything it required to become a leader in global business. However, Canada’s action didn’t match its potential. His own experience as an immigrant – leaving Hungary as a child to move to Sweden, and later on to Canada – had also made him realize how adaptable a person had to be in order to really understand different realities. He thought he should create a program that would allow students to become successful business people on an international scale. Today, as the Dean of the Schulich School of Business in Toronto, that is exactly what Dezsö Horvath is doing. The Roots team talked to him about some of the key ingredients that make a better globally-aware business person. (more…)
Awakhiwe Dlodlo
”When I came back to Montreal from Vietnam, my whole life changed slowly from that trip because that was the connection, it’s like going back and finding your roots again” says Zoonie as she talks of how the trip to her country of birth changed her life.
Montreal, December 8, 2009—Everyone has a story to tell. Starting today, Radio Canada International invites all Canadians and permanent residents to tell us about their origins by entering ROOTS (or its French-language cousin RACINES), its brand-new short film and multimedia production competition. The deadline for entries is March 7, 2010. The competition is open to amateurs and professionals alike, but you must be at least 18 years old to enter. (more…)
Manuel Piña didn’t know what being “busy” was before coming to Canada from his native Cuba. After being given an important legacy by Cuban poet Eliseo Diego, he couldn’t overlook the fact that the new Canadian reality made him confront a new dimension of time which contrasted with the one that corresponded to his roots.
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Awakhiwe Dlodlo
“When I hear the word roots, I think of the mini-series and what it reminds me is that I shouldn’t forget where I come from”. Sandile Ncube is a Zimbabwean musician who lives in Montreal since 2001. Once or twice a week he meets with Barry Muchetu and Yardsteppa for a jam session.
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