Pyè Banbou was 16 years old when he was studying theater at Société Nationale d'Arts Dramatiques (National Society of Dramatic Arts). At 19 years of age, he founded G.N.A.F. Groupement National d'Alphabétisation et de Formation (Board National for Literacy and Education), M.T.O. (Mouvman Teyat Ouvriye) Grassroots Theater Movement. One of the most lively Haitian socio-cultural activists, he is a brilliant anthropologist, a linguist, a translator, and a rhetorician. A university professor, a specialist in elections for public office, he served as the (CEP or IPEC) Interim President of Electoral Counsel after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile in 1986. Pyè Banbou worked extensively hard to help the Creole language becomes official together with the French. Banbou understands that Haiti is isolated with the French language because France is all the way in Europe. From a geographic point of view, the countries near Haiti speak Spanish or English, one of the languages Haiti could have spoken besides Creole. Most importantly, everybody speaks Creole in Haiti, but only a small group of people speaks French; therefore scholars, linguists, educators, intellectuals, most work to help standardized Creole and make it the language of education. Only a small group of people knows how to read and write, when the majority does not read, write or speak French, the language of education in the country still today. Banbou is trying all possible struggles to make Creole next to French as the language of education for the mass. His point is, if Creole is used in education, it will be easier and faster to teach literacy skills to all Haitians because everybody speaks Creole. The poet Léon Laleau, also influenced by Dr. Jean Price Mars, in his poem entitled Musique nègre, (Black Melody) is echoing a similar vision, and he truthfully shows how nostalgic it is for him to express with French words, his feelings from his profound blackness. Haiti's first presidents, Alexandre Petion and many others made a huge mistake. They allowed France to accomplish its vicious plan, that was to use the powers of cultures and languages to indirectly continue to colonize the Island. President Alexandre Petion, born in Haiti from a French father and a black mother, was sent to Paris to be educated. Once president, he kept strong and lively in the Island, everything that was French. He is the one of main character that put Haiti in the situation it is today, by being the poorest and the most underdeveloped country in the western hemisphere.

After independence, and after the death of Dessaline, beneath Alexandre Petion, the French language, the French schools, the French priests, were kept to satisfy the ego of a small number of people that were very proud with the French customs, culture, and language they used as instruments that helped in creating a dominant class. Pyè Banbou, pen name for Dr. Ernst Mirville, is a champion for his input in the Haitian cultural and sociopolitical struggles. He is one of the principal actors on the scene to play 'The Creole Movement'. He was born on July 31, 1940 in Port-au-Prince, where he grew up. He received his High school education in two of the best schools for boys in Haiti: Jean Marie Guilloux School and College Saint Martial. He studied general medicine at the State School of medicine and Pharmacology. However, it is clear that his major interests and passions were for linguistics, anthropology, ethnology, and writing. He soon, after medical school, entered the School of Ethnology or Cultural Anthropology.
Pyè Banbou was influenced by Dr. Jean Price-Mars, author of the famous ethnography called So Spoke the Uncle (1928). Pyè Banbou, as a disciple of Dr. Jean Price-Mars, is continuing the works of a master who fought for the conservation of the African traditions cultures not only in Haiti but in the entire African diaspora. Dr. Ernst Mirville best goal is to bring Haitians to realize that, as a people, they have the most poignant history of liberation in the world, which is the haulage of the human race on a new soil in the worse biological conditions. According to Dr. Ernst Mirville, Haitians are lost by adopting the language, the culture and the total values of their ancient masters. Instead, they should be proud of their root music, food, dances, outfits, the drum o the sacred drum and its rhythms. He gets involved on a mission to help the Haitian psyche from a psychological disturbance, to let them know that they are not French; instead, they are African Caribbean or African American. Among various writings in Creole and in French about linguistics, cultural anthropology, medicine, one of Pyè Banbou's foremost pieces of writing is an ethnography entitled Ethno-Psychanalytic Considerations on the Haitian Carnival.