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A rich exchange on the dramatic situation of the 101st French department and the poorest.

On December 14, Cyclone Chido devastated Mayotte, leaving a population bloodless and destitute. Originally from Chiconi, the journalist and poet Nassuf Djailani, co-founder of the publishing house Project'îles dedicated to the literature of the Indian Ocean, talks about his battered island.

If he welcomes the solidarity between the inhabitants –“It’s the genius of small people, to compose and not break” –he deplores the slowness of humanitarian aid and relief inland, cut off from the world, and the behavior of these politicians who, before worrying about the victims, talk about the migration issue. “When there are dead, we must be silent and salute their memory,” he emphasizes.

Nassuf Djailani calls on his fellow citizens to reclaim their history, particularly through culture, so as not to disappear. “We try to invent possibilities by investing in literature because we suffer from a disease called enclosure. The tragedy of overseas is having our eyes fixed on the metropolis and waiting for things to fall on us and that makes us sterile. »

A rich exchange where poetry and literature aim to restore the pride of the Mahorais.