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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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1 décembre 2014

The Fashion Salon

The Fashion Salon was last weekend. Not usually the type of event I go for, but there are few enough events of any sort in Mayotte for me to try and go to the ones there are. On Saturday evening, there was the fashion show and competition. Every year,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, clothes, dress, november, salon, dance, sing, fashion, chigoma

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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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26 mai 2014

Kids

Adults in Mayotte don't really like the camera lens. There is a belief that being photographed removes a part of your soul, but it's usually closer to not liking white tourists taking photos of "locals" doing "local things". Which is fair enough and perfectly...

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Tags: clothes, photo, camera, children, kofia, kids, muslim, local, boubou, coran

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6 janvier 2014

Overseas Women

There was a national photography competition in France not long ago, whose title was: "Overseas Women". As the Mahorese people didn't like the results, saying they weren't representative enough of women in the French overseas territories, they had their...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, women, photo, work, hair, computer, ferry, jasmine, smartphone

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19 novembre 2012

High heels and red carpets

On Saturday, we went to the annual Fashion Salon in M'Gombani. Except that this year, we didn't just go round the stalls outside which were selling colourful African printed material and bamboo sticks: we stayed for the fashion show itself. It started...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, clothes, mgombani, mode, salon, chiromani, designers, fashion, heels, lace, model, satin, show, silk

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16 juillet 2012

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I think you would be horrified if you saw the state your parcels arrived in. That's why they're going on the blog. The packages shown above are presents that Mum, Nanny and Papi sent me, a colourful top and a batch of Economists. The beanies you sent...

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Tags: box, clothes, t-shirt, beanie, birthday, economist, envelope, fragile, hat, package, packet, parcel, post, send

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28 mai 2012

Sunday best.

People here do dry their washing in the most extraordinary places. Public railings, pavements in front of schools, bridges, even fields full of water buffalo. It makes for very colourful displays. Most people can't afford washing machines. They wash the...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, bridge, dry, pavement, railing, washing

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22 mars 2012

My Granddaughter Went To Market And She Bought...

We went to the market the other day. The big, covered market in the Place de la République in Mamoudzou. We'd never gone inside before, never really gathered that there was actually something in there, just seen the big pink building from the outside....

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Tags: mamoudzou, banana, breadfruit, cassava, clothes, chicken wings, brochetti, market, kebab, leaves, placenta

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10 décembre 2011

Christmas Market

There was a Christmas market today in front of the M’biwi Café, just down the road from us. I thought a Christmas market by 32°C sounded interesting, so I went along after work to see what sort of things were up for sale. The first thing that struck me...

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Tags: mayotte, food, papaya, clothes, mzungu, postcard, colour, basket, christmas, jewellery, juice, market, pineapple, tortoise

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