[1] The organization was founded in 1997 at the Center for Black Studies Research of the University of California, Santa Barbara, then under the directorship of Claudine Michel.
[2] Using the Haitian Creole name for congress (kóngre) with the San- and Ba- of Santa Barbara, the abbreviation KOSANBA was born.
According to their declaration, KOSANBA "proposes to have an impact on Haitian cultural politics as well as on other measures and policies that affect the Republic of Haiti ...
[4] In 2019, the association held its thirteenth colloquium at the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
The current president of the association is Yanique Hume, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.