Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

29 juin 2015

Pneumatophores.

I've been fascinated by the mangrove since I arrived in Mayotte. The mangrove goes pretty much all round the island. From most points on the coast, you can either see it or smell it, or both. Mangrove trees are salt tolerant, and they have an very simple...

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Tags: mayotte, water, mangrove, root, tree, threat, breathe, filter, filtration, guyana, guyane, human, influence, new caledonia, nouvelle calédonie, pneumatophore, scientists, threatened, crab

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25 juin 2015

First Moon of Ramadan

Seen from Mayotte, the moon looks like a smile. This is the first moon of Ramadan this year. Ramadan, or a period of roughly one month when Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise and sunset, but gorge themselves on fried food and sugary treats at...

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Tags: mayotte, school, night, ramadan, muslim, day, arrive, cadi, fast, leave, miradji, moon

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11 mai 2015

Market Day Has Gone Forever

There used to be two markets in Mamoudzou. The official one, and the clandestine one. The official one is under cover, in a fairly recent building where sellers rent out spaces the size of your average garage for 120€/month. Pretty expensive by Mahorese...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, fruit, clothes, dark, market, clandestine, smell, damp, destroy, hygienic, official, vegetables

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20 avril 2015

UNICEF Heroes Day

Yesterday was UNICEF Heroes Day: a worldwide, running-applications-and-various-other-gadgets-connected run whose goal was to raise money to vaccinate children. The idea was to get everybody to run 10 kilometres and connect via various running or fitness-based...

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Tags: t-shirt, blue, photo, race, run, children, money, day, 10km, application, charity, competition, connection, donate, donation, hero, shoelaces, ten, unicef, vaccinate

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9 mars 2015

The Nutrition Transition

A rather interesting article turned up in the newspaper this week. Mayotte has been in the middle of a nutritional transition (poetically put) for quite a few years now. From not having enough to eat and suffering from various lacks and deficiencies,...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, food, water, chicken wings, rice, supermarket, coconut, oil, beef, diabetes, fat, sugar, nutrition, cholesterol, malnourished, obesity, overweight, pregnancy, underweight

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2 mars 2015

Grating coconut

In Mayotte, coconut and coconut milk are frequently used in cooking. Mataba, one of the most common dishes here, is made by mashing cassava leaves and mixing them with coconut milk, sometimes adding meat or fish later on. Fish and chicken are regularly...

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Tags: mayotte, food, women, coconut, mahorese, job, cooking, chair, chop, cut, grate, knife, prepare, shell

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22 décembre 2014

It's a beautiful place, really.

There have been a couple of rather pretty-pretty series of photos of Mayotte around recently. Two projects, in fact. The first was the Vanilla Islands project: an effort to put forward Mayotte, Reunion and the Seychelles on the touristic scene. We did...

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Tags: island, mayotte, beautiful, coral, photo, vanilla, turtle, dolphin, tourism, tourist, drone

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3 novembre 2014

N'Gouja at sunset.

The place goes crazy about once a year, fighting over things such as salaries, football matches and the price of chicken wings, but Mayotte can also be a very beautiful place when it sets its mind to it. These photos were taken last week at the most touristic...

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Tags: mayotte, mzungu, white, beautiful, beach, photo, sun, turtle, ngouja, sunset, afternoon, wednesday, weekend

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22 septembre 2014

Here we go again...

This time, it all started with a football match. Majicavo and Kawéni, two neighbouring villages, were playing against each other. Majicavo was winning 3 - 0 when the referee gave a player a yellow card instead of the red card he should have given him....

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Tags: water, kawéni, car, riot, barrier, boat, violin, violence, football, smash, window, block, burn, gang

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28 juillet 2014

This Little M'Zungu Went To Market... and she bought...

This is the outdoor market in Mamoudzou. Pretty much a permanent fixture, currently augmented reality thanks to the Ramadan market which has appended itself on top of the original. I'm quite pleased with these photos because photos of the market are hard...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, fruit, tomato, vegetable, clothes, salouva, fish, boat, market, fat, headscarf, onion, china, fisherman, mamoudzouThis l, size, taiwan

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