Confidence votes 53. The haitians are not African, they are islanders in the Carribbean sea. Their island is shared with the Dominican Republic. If you are asking as where did they come from many years ago, most of the Haitian population were imported as slaves that came from West Africa.No specific country to the best of my knowledge.aitians are people who were born in Haiti and Haiti was found December 5 1492.i was born in Boston and both my mom and dad were born in Haiti but some of us in both of my sid … es we weren't born in Haiti but we still Haitian. + 5 others found this useful.