Kafou Malonèt — An Emotion From Haiti to All Over the World 🇭🇹✈️🌎
A part of me is still there, I promise.
In Haiti, they call it “Kafou Malonèt.” That is the most beautiful and, yet, morose expression ever thought of.
Kafou Malonèt is an expression in Haitian Creole that roughly translates to, “crossroad of rudeness” or “[street] intersection of disrespect” in English. You can play around with it.
Kafou Malonèt is the place where some individuals (preferably in a loving relationship) say their final saddening goodbyes before continuing on their separate paths or before one leaves the other.
It is the final moment at the airport, bus station, or outside of home, after your son had visited from the army for a few memorable months, but now you have to say goodbye to him because it has all come to an end. Is that not just…rude?
For the past four months, I’ve been traveling from house to house visiting family members. I spent an entire month in Argentina living with my Argentinian family, who I’ve been longing to see again since I had left them in that intersection in 2015.