Leslie Manigat
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Leslie François Manigat (born August 13, 1930 in Port-au-Prince) was elected president of Haiti by a tightly controlled military held election in January of 1988.
According to the Provisional Electoral Council (Conseil Electoral Provisoire, or CEP) he won the presidential elections of January 17, 1988 with 50.29% of the votes, defeating ten other candidates. However, percent turnout was in the low single digits. Few historians and vote monitors consider this election to have been democratic. He was inaugurated on February 7, 1988, but was overthrown by Gen. Henri Namphy on June 20, after only a few months in office. He ran for president again in the 2006 election but was defeated.
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[edit] Selected Works
- Une date littéraire, un événement pédagogique - Essay, Port-au-Prince, 1962
- L'Amérique latine au XXe Siècle - History, Université de Paris I Sorbonne, 1973
[edit] The Teacher
Leslie Manigat is also an educator. He was a professor at the prestigious l'Université de Paris-VIII Vincennes Sorbonne where he gave courses on World History. He also published articles on Education in various Haitian Newspapers: Le Nouvelliste, La Phalange, Le Matin.
[edit] Award
Leslie Manigat won The Haiti Grand Prize of literature 2004, given at the Miami Book Fair International of 2004. Nominees for the Prize were: Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Jean-Claude Fignolé, Odette Roy-Fombrun, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Josaphat-Robert Large.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Henri Namphy |
President of Haïti 1988 |
Succeeded by Henri Namphy |
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[edit] Sources
- Bibliographie des Etudes littéraires haïtiennes 1804-1984 (Bibliography of Haitian literary Studies) by Léon-François Hoffmann, EDICEF/AUPELF, Vanves, 1992
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Haitian History)
- Editions Richelieu, Univers Contemporain, Paris, 1973
