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30 juin 2014

Graffiti in M'Gombani

Graffiti in M'Gombani

These are the resulting photos of my graffiti project around M'Gombani, a small village to the south of Mamoudzou. I took photos like these around three villages in total. The idea was to show my kids the difference between artistic graffiti, street art...

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Tags: mayotte, stadium, street, court, art, basketball, degradation, graffiti, seahorse, symbol, tag, vandalism

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23 juin 2014

Les Bigoudènes En Folie

Les Bigoudènes En Folie

It's tyre-racing time. The Bretons of Mayotte have two teams, one all-female, one all-male. The leader of the Bretons works in the police station and usually manages to rope in a team of policemen/women. He'd managed it last year, and had seemed to manage...

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Tags: girl, t-shirt, tyres, bretons, tyre racing, soap, flag, stick, sport, team, five, headdress

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16 juin 2014

Music

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. On May 31st, I was roped in to play "film music", which was a new one for me. Mostly cartoon themes such as Some Day My Prince Will Come, Popeye or The Bare Necessities, but the odd tune from films such...

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Tags: food, school, blue, bretons, music, mango, concert, dance, folk, pancakes, film

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9 juin 2014

Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

Each village in Mayotte has its own football club. Some of the most famous are the Mtsamboro Bees, the Mzouazia Twins, the Rosador of Passamaïnty and the Southern Miracle. And without fail, during the dry season, all matches are played amid clouds of...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, play, dust, field, football, game, soccer, sport

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2 juin 2014

Wenka

I'm currently writing a lesson plan on graffiti and street art, the idea being to teach the kids what the point of each is and how to tell the difference. As there are a lot of tags here, I wanted to start off with pictures of graffiti around their home...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, box, house, kawéni, mzungu, car, photo, village, kids, letter, street, wenka

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