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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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15 décembre 2014

The teacher is in the hammock.

A colleague used to draw these cartoons about Mahorese women, known as bouénis. This is one he drew for me, turning the bouénis into English teachers... hard at work!

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Tags: mayotte, women, colleague, school, teacher, boueni, work, mahorese, cartoon, hammock

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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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17 décembre 2012

Please do not spit in the hospital. Thank you.

We went on a boat trip the other day with our friend Franck and a friend of his, a doctor named Brigitte. We now know that... The most wide-spread illnesses in Mayotte are high blood pressure and diabetes. However, the women may be fat, they never suffer...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, women, children, men, age, blood, diabetes, doctor, fat, hospital, ill, jacaranda, patient, pressure, sick, spit

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6 août 2012

Population Study episode 1 : Bouénis

Bouéni means "madam" in Shimaoré. It's the name given to all married women, or those who look old enough to be married. It's more than a name, though, it's a way of life. Bouénis are the ones who have all the power in Mahorese societies. They're the ones...

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Tags: mayotte, salouva, women, chicken wings, beautiful, bouéni, market, wedding, children, hair, m'biwi, married, poverty

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23 juillet 2012

Ben and Toirfia

We went to our Very First Grand Wedding on Friday. Just part of it. Grand Weddings in Mayotte generally take place in the austral winter months, read from June to September. Weddings here are very ritualised occasions. For months before the wedding, the...

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Tags: food, ceremony, salouva, women, henna, wedding, m'biwi, kofia, make-up, marriage, men, money, parade

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9 juillet 2012

M'biwi Contest

On a Sunday at the end of last month, there was the 2nd M'biwi Contest. M'biwi is a ceremony which is generally practised during weddings or other big occasions. It's a women's ceremony. They sit on the floor and bang two pieces of bamboo together to...

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Tags: mayotte, ceremony, girl, mbiwi, salouva, women, traditional, dance, contest, sing, wedding

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25 septembre 2011

Dress codes

At the airport The traditional dress here is called a salouva, and they have a turban on their head, known as a kishali, often just worn as a scarf over the head. It’s all very colourful, though probably not terribly practical. Salouvas are made from...

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Tags: mayotte, airport, ceremony, clothes, dress, girl, heat, kishali, ladies, mbiwi, salouva, scarf, skirt, t-shirt, women, wrap

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