5/16/2023 0 Comments Maurice sixto gwo moso![]() ![]() This prolific artist fingered all the wounds that plagued the Haitian society he also became one of the earliest pioneers advocating for the usage of Haitian Creole in school teaching. Maurice Sixto is remembered for being the greatest Haitian storyteller.Through his many tales, he alone played the numerous characters he himself created. He left Haiti in 1961 to teach English at the Republic of Congo till 1969, when he decided to live in Paris where he served as a Haitian diplomat despite being legally blind for over a decade, then the USA, where he would finally die at the age of 65 in the US State of Philadelphia. While attending law school he landed a job as a journalist for the famous Haitian newspaper Le Matin, then for Radio HHBM (now MBC) as a presenter. ![]() ![]() Being from a wealthy family, he attended Haiti's most prestigious school, Saint Louis de Gonzague and after high school was sent to the Haitian Military Academy where he would only stay for a couple of months, then opted instead for law studies at the country's national university. His father who had the exact same name, was an engineer by profession and his mother was a stay at home mom. Maurice Alfredo Sixto was born in Gonaives on May 23, 1919. ![]()
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