Martinique

Martinique (anaa ; Kalinago:  anaa ) be island insyd de Lesser Antilles of de West Indies, insyd de eastern Caribbean Sea. Na dem previously know am as Iguanacaera wey dey translate go iguana island insyd Kariʼnja. Sam part of de French West Indies (Antilles), Martinique be overseas department den region den sam single territorial collectivity of France.

Martinique get a land area of 1,128 km2 (436 sq mi) den a population of 349,925 inhabitants as of January 2024. One of de Windward Islands, e dey lie directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of Barbados den south of Dominica. Virtually de entire population dey speak both French (de sole official language) den Martinican Creole.

 Notable people 

 Painters den sculptors 

 Victor Anicet
 Jean-François Boclé
 Hector Charpentier
 Henri Guédon
 René Louise
 Joseph René-Corail, dem sanso know as Khokho

 Film-makers, screenwriters, directors den actors 

 Lucien Jean-Baptiste - actor, writer den director
 Stéfi Celma - actress den singer.
 Alex Descas - film actor
 Viktor Lazlo - singer.
 Darling Légitimus - former actress.
 Chris Macari - video director den producer
 Euzhan Palcy - film director, screenwriter, den producer.
 Sabine Quindou - journalist den TV presenter
 Cathy Rosier - model den actress

 Singers, musicians anaa music groups 

 Paulo Albin : author, composer den performer, lead singer insyd La Perfecta
 Jenny Alpha : actress den singer
 Jocelyne Béroard : author den part of de group Kassav'
 Mino Cinelu : musician
 Cyril Cinélu : winner of Star Académy 2006
 Miss Dominique : singer
 Gibson Brothers : a disco/salsa band wey komot Sainte-Marie
 Christina Goh : singer den songwriter of blues-chanson réaliste music

 References 

 Read further 

 Forster, Elborg, Robert Forster, and Pierre Dessailes – Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diaries of Pierre Dessailes, Planter in Martinique, 1808–1856.
 Gerstin, Julian and Dominique Cyrille – Martinique: Cane Fields and City Streets.
 Haigh, Sam – An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing: Guadeloupe and Martinique.
 Heilprin, Angelo – Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martinique.
 Heilprin, Angelo – The Tower of Pelee. New Studies of the Great Volcano of Martinique.
 Kimber, Clarissa Therese – Martinique Revisited: The Changing Plant Geographies of a West Indian Island.
 Lamont, Rosette C. and Richard Miller – New French Language Plays: Martinique, Quebec, Ivory Coast, Belgium.
 Laguerre, Michel S. – Urban Poverty in the Caribbean: French Martinique as a Social Laboratory.
 Murray, David A. B. – Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race and the 'Problem' of Identity in Martinique.
 Slater, Mariam K. – The Caribbean Family: Legitimacy in Martinique.
 Tomich, Dale W. – Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848.
 Watts, David – The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture, and Environmental Change Since 1492.

 External links 

 Government
 Prefecture website Archived 24 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
 Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique website Archived 31 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in French) 

 General information
 Wikimedia Atlas of Martinique

 Travel
 Martinique Tourism Authority Archived 3 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine – Official site
 Zananas Martinique Archived 11 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine – Informations site


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