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12 juillet 2012

A few days later...

The men's dance, chigoma, followed a few days later. Naturally enough, being a Mahorese event, it started an hour late, but it was interesting. To dance chigoma, you stand in single file and shuffle forward, first one foot, left, forward, then the other,...

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Tags: music, dance, men, chigoma, washing-machine

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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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2 juillet 2012

Tyred flat out.

On Saturday, there was the Grand Tyre Race in Mamoudzou. Hundreds of people had come to race and to watch, as this is THE big event of the year in Mayotte. The idea is to race for 2.2km through the capital city, driving a used tyre in front of oneself...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, tyres, boy, grease, race, run, tyre racing, yoghurt, face paint, prize, soap

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25 juin 2012

Drama Queens

The end of the school year was on Friday, June 22nd, at twelve o'clock. For a while, a French teacher called Salima and I had been preparing a short drama show with the same class, each of us blithely unknowing of what the other was doing. It was one...

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Tags: girl, school, teacher, boy, english, music, traditional, dance, french, play, pregnant

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18 juin 2012

Black and White

Last Friday, we went to a painting exhibition by two artists, one we'd heard of, one we hadn't. Exhibitions are extremely rare in Mayotte, as are any forms of what is pompously described as "culture". No theatre or drama representations, no cinema, very...

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Tags: mayotte, water, friend, abstract, artist, baba, exhibition, figurative, marcel, mbaye, painting, sejour

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11 juin 2012

Vhat do iou dou?

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Tags: mayotte, water, teacher, boat, sun, swim, feet, turtle, work

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4 juin 2012

Radio Tour de l'Île ! Infos, quizz, musique, fun !

Over the Pentecost week-end, a friend of ours was participating in the Tour de l'Île, a sailing boat tour of the larger of Mayotte's two islands. He told us that he does this every year, and that he usually ends up being the only one playing music on...

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Tags: island, mayotte, cat, food, water, emily, beach, boat, sea, pilao, philip, tour, knots, ropes, sailing

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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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21 mai 2012

Hot country, cold chain.

This singularly appetizing photo is of several cardboard boxes of mabawas - chicken wings again. What the photo doesn't show is the large yellow and red sign just above the food, saying "DO NOT OPEN THE BOXES". Written in French, which most people here...

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Tags: mayotte, box, food, chicken wings, supermarket, beef, cold chain, shopping list

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14 mai 2012

Voulé on Sohoa Beach

We went to a barbecue on the beach the other day. These are extremely common here, there are always groups of people cooking things on any beach you go to. Traditional barbecue food here is chicken wings and green bananas, which are either cooked in the...

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Tags: mayotte, scooter, beach, music, barbecue, mahorais, leaves, voulé, carry

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