After the "soup joumou," Haiti now aims to inscribe compas on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Haiti's permanent delegation to UNESCO submitted the candidacy of compas to be recognized as intangible cultural heritage of humanity this week.
Already classified as Haitian intangible cultural heritage, compas aims to play in the big leagues. "Konpa/compas is a form of music and dance that represents an important part of Haiti's intangible cultural heritage. In all its varie