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

11 juillet 2015

Kwahéri Maoré

When I arrived at my Mahorese school, I met several teachers who were in their last year in Mayotte. And universally, they told me that when you're in your last year, you're already at your destination in your mind. One, named Henri Denglades, was going...

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Tags: france, mayotte, house, school, car, motorbike, flute, change, village, family, plane, lille, small, world

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15 juin 2015

Tsoundzou

These are some typical roadside scenes in Mayotte. The above photos were taken in the village of Tsoundzou. There's a bridge over a pretty river, where various outrigger canoes were parked. The bridge is actually fairly new. It was started about ten years...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, fruit, car, market, village, football, onion, container, kwalé, palm tree, river, tsoundzou

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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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4 août 2014

Mayotte has a brand new airport.

Above, the old airport arrival hall. Three hundred people in a very small space with a small conveyor belt, and one or two men in the middle of the conveyor belt, pushing the bags together in order to fit more bags on the belt. You see, the belt would...

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Tags: mayotte, airport, car, bag, cooler, luggage, plane, organize, station, taxi

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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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29 mai 2014

Super-Car

There are lots of cars in Mayotte, many more than the roads can provide for in terms of capacity and maintenance. But one is above all. One car to rule them all. One car to find them. One car to bring them all and in the potholes bind them. In the land...

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Tags: mayotte, car, road, football, decoration, goldys, lord of the rings, om, psg, team

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3 février 2014

Total Jumbo Strike

There are two big strikes going on at the moment. And being Mayotte, where nothing really ever goes as planned, they're both worth a mention. The first - and bigger - is the Total strike. Total is the one and only petrol provider in Mayotte, the group...

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Tags: france, mayotte, car, petrol, strike, supermarket, decree, job, jumbo, queue, reform, score, total, victorin lurel

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16 décembre 2013

Idiots

I read an article the other day which began like this : "When you’re driving, everybody else on the road is an idiot and it’s your job to watch out". In Mayotte, driving is more than just a daily occurrence aiming to get a person from point A to point...

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Tags: mayotte, car, road, driving, idiot

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6 mai 2013

Salama Djema

Mayotte is made up of two main islands, Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre. Between the two islands, the only means of transport is the ferry, known as the barge. There's even a verb for it: barger. Barging costs 75 centimes for a pedestrian, 2€ for a 50cc...

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Tags: island, airport, lagoon, car, scooter, people, petite terre, barge, euro, ferry, grande terre, pedestrian, salama djema

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7 janvier 2013

Out of Place

Mayotte is a strange place to live in. On one hand, the country is a French department and has belonged to France for over a hundred years. You can find La Poste and the Conseil Général, every village has a Mairie (town hall) and often a boulangerie (baker's)....

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Tags: mayotte, car, shop, television, amazon, bakery, customer, land, mainland, post office, product, salespeople, technology

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