Category Archives: Mauritius

Mauritian dance mix looking for a haven

By admin | Published: 21 February 2009
Jean Renat Anamah is a dancer based in Mauritius. Dance is a powerful language of identity in an island where Asian, European and African cultures collide. Ahamah’s dance includes elements of the creole Sega, Indian classical and even tango. But this mixing of genres makes it difficult for Ahamah’s dance to find a place in [...]
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Mauritius: Mistakes galore

By admin | Published: 22 May 2008
The Mauritian writer Lindsay Collen has responded to the story of Mauritius as ‘an island of mistakes’ with a critical analysis of colonial myths. In particular, she critiques the way Mauritius is reduced, in terms of space and language. It’s a long piece, but worth presenting in full for the issues it raises more generally [...]
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Mauritius – is the South a mistake?

By admin | Published: 29 February 2008
We began the journey way up in great Arctic landmass of Canada, where the idea of North frames a direction away from the dominant power—a loneliness that brings people together. Now we descend to the opposite end of the world, a little island in the Indian Ocean. Early ideas of South speculated about an Antipodes [...]
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