MDC Professor Publishes ebook Against Bullying

October 30, 2012

Cover of Geoffrey Philp's book Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories. — COURTESY OF GEOFFREY PHILP

North Campus professor Geoffrey Philp published an ebook version of his 2007 book Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories on Sept. 30.

The story is about a young boy who overcomes a terrorizing bully by using the morals of a well-known Caribbean folktale Anancy, Snake and Tiger

Caribbean children are often bullied because they are seen as “different”, added Philp the author of the book, who said he was “often the target of bullies” when he was younger.

For more info, contact Geoffrey Philp at ephilp@mdc.edu

Jonel Juste

Jonel Juste, 34, is a Haitian-born journalist and writer. Juste, who earned a journalism degree in Haiti, serves as a columnist for The Reporter. He completed the REVEST program at Miami Dade College and is now majoring in Mass Communications\Journalism. From 2007 to 2011, he worked as editor-in-chief of the monthly French-language, Views of Haiti and the daily news website Haiti Press Network. In 2011, after moving to the US, Juste worked for the Haitian American news website Haiti Sentinel. Since 2013, he has hosted a monthly sociocultural rubric in Le Floridien, a Haitian American newspaper. As a writer, he published the poem book Carrefour de Nuit (Crossroad) in 2012 and Joseph, Prince d’Egypte (Joseph, Prince of Egypt) in 2013.