"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.  - Desmond Tutu

"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison  

Learn from the lives of trailblazers

Where to start

Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission Vol 1

Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission Report Vol 2 Land Issues

Truth and Justice Commission report Volume 3 Contemporary History, Culture and Society - research Reports, Technical studies and Surveys

Truth and Justice Commission report Volume 4 History Economy Society and Memory

Inventory of slave sites, a 228 page document as part of the UNESCO slave route

Le Morne Slave Route 

Academic Writing

Décolonisation en pays créole : l’île Maurice et La Réunion (Houbert)

Pier Larson's books - must reads!

Ethnicity, class and the 1999 Mauritian riots (In Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights, Thomas Eriksen, 2004)

Multiculturalism, individualism and human rights: Romanticism, Enlightenment and lessons from Mauritius (Thomas Eriksen, 1997)

Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius islands: Creative practices in Mauritian Creole (Island Studies Journal, Pyndiah, 2016)

Minority rights and anti-discrimination policy in Mauritius – the case of ‘Malaise Creole’ (International Journal of Cultural Policy, Naseem Lallmahomed-Aumeerally, 2015)

Unravelling Le Malaise Creole: Hybridity and Marginalisation in Mauritius by Rosabelle Boswell

The Malaise Creole in Mauritius by William F S Miles

In the Politics of the Rainbow: Creoles and Civil Society in Mauritius by Rosabelle Laville

Register Levels of Ethno-National Purity: The Ethnicization of Language and Community in Mauritius by Patrick Eisenlohr

Making Race: Examining the Power of Local Place in Teacher Discourse in Mauritius (Wiehe, 2019)

“Religion et identité créole à l’ile Maurice” par Hubert Gerbeau (Open access on Cairn.info, in Histoires et missions chrétiennes 2004/4 No 12, Pg 53-71)

“Bitter Sugar: Sugar and Slavery in 19th century Mauritius” by Vijaya Teelock (history) (MGI Press) 

Tijo Salverda: Sugar, Sea, and Power (2010) A dissertation on the white oligarchy

News Articles

In Mauritius (1826-1879) : The East African, Indian Siddhi, Malagasy, Chinese, Comorian, and Liberated African Indentured Immigrants (Le Mauricien, Peerthum, 2018)

Rapport sur la discrimination raciale : les Nations-Unies remontent  les bretelles de Maurice (Defi Media, 2018)

Le vrai pouvoir des castes à Maurice (L'Express, Rabin Bhujun, 2018)

An Education (Granta, Ariel Saramandi, 2020)

There Is Too Much Feminism”: On the Rise of the Mauritian Alt-Right (LARB, Ariel Saramandi, 2019)

Time for Mauritius to repay its debt to Africa, Vijaya Teelock, L’Express, 22 Mar 2017.

Blogs & Commentaries

Do Mauritian Creole Lives Matter? by The Afrindian (2020)

L’Ile Maurice et la discrimination raciale (Zilmoris, Elorac, 2018) 

Kaya 20 ans après (Zilmoris, Elorac, 2019)

Between Cambridge and Troumaron: Teaching Mauritian Literature at Harvard  (Nikhita Obeegadoo 2020)

Slave History in Mauritius (Seereekissoon, 2020)

Mahé l’esclavagiste by Ti Kréol Kont Gro Profitèr

‘I do not manage my Africanness. I fight for it. I constantly have to defend it.’ (JRB interview with poet Moshumee T Dewoo, 2020)

Thinking of Black Lives Matters as a Mauritian by Soufia Bham, Facebook

Long live the Empire? Seeking justice and the case of the Chagos Islands by Mark Kersten

Nu tou Creole: Are we Mauritians really African? - (African Arguments, Shaheen Beeharry

Creole Identities: Colonial Histories and Politics of Resistance, A focus on the Mascarenes Islands: Mauritius and La Réunion - Amina Soulimani

Anti-Blackness is hiding in plain sight: The Black Lives of Mauritius - Nastassia Jagatsingh

On Reparations

Les enjeux actuels des débats sur la mémoire et la réparation pour l’esclavage à l’île Maurice (Cahier des Etudes Africaines, Chan Low, 2004)

Petition in favor of a collective form of reparation for slavery (Lalit, 2009)

Slavery, reparations, and statues (Lalit, 2006)

Reparations for slavery (Lalit, 2020)

On Slavery reparation (Lalit, 1995)

On Kreol Language

Prof. Dereck Bickerton on Language & Mauritian Kreol (Lingua Mauricia, 2009)

Kreol and Bhojpuri: A Bilingual Handbook on Mother Tongue RightsThe importance of written kreol in decolonization. Paper presented a Lalit Open Symposium on Decolonization, July 2018. Ah Vee, A. (2018b, September 6).

The state of the mother tongue in Mauritius today. Lalit Mauritius. Ah-Vee, A. (2018c, November 28). 

Calvet, L.-J. (1974). Linguistique et colonialisme: Petit traité de glottophagie. Paris: Payot. [

Orthographe: Adieu Créole? L’Express. Retrieved from [Orthography: Goodbye to Creole? L’Express]. 

Baker, P. (2014). Accounting for contact-induced changes in Mauritian Creole. Workshop on Grammatical Hybridization and Social Conditions, Leipzig. 

Richon, E. (2004). Langaz Kreol Langaz Maron. Grande Riviere Nord Ouest: Ledikasyon Pu Travayer. A bilingual French and Kreol book that discusses the problem with looking for singular etymology of words.

A few points on verbs in Mauritian Kreol and in Kreol Languages (Lalit Mauritius, Dick, Ah-Vee, Collen, Jan 25, 2011)

Accounting for Contact-Induced Changes in Mauritian Creole (Philip Baker, 2014)

The incredible story of the traveling creole: podcast on enslaved people developed a hybrid language that sailed from Africa to the Caribbean and -unbelievably- back again (Slate)

Creole-Speaking Countries and their Populations (a table of “French-lexifier” creoles)

Language Policies in African Education

Survey Chapter: Seychelles Creole (Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online (APICS))

Survey Chapter: Mauritius Creole (Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online (APICS))

Pidgin and Creole languages (Mufwene, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2002)

Unpacking Creole Languages, Part 1: An Introduction (McKeon, Medium)

Unpacking Creole Languages, Part 2: A Racist Paradigm (McKeon, Medium)

Unpacking Creole Languages, Part 3: Debunking Exceptionalism (McKeon, Medium)

https://www.eva.mpg.de/fileadmin/content_files/linguistics/conferences/2014-WS-gram-hybrid/Baker_presentation.pdf

Onsiong, D. Slavery and Indenture: Replacing a System or Perpetuating It? L’Express, 15 January 2019

Report of the Truth and Justice Commission Volume 1 (2011) 

Nu Tou Creole: Are we Mauritians really African? (Beehary, 2019, African Arguments). 

Kreol Larenyon: Fonnker Papang Conteur: A beautiful sung poem on Reunion Creole.

Videos

Ep. 17 Racisme by Freedomlicious Karol

Kaya, 1999

Kaya: mo zistwar pa éfasé

Ile Maurice : Son Histoire

Stealing A Nation: Diego Garcia - John Pilger

Mauritius nowadays (BBC travels)

Liste de ressources francophones pour l’éducation antiraciste

The Great Experiment - a devised play by Border Crossings: resource pack with background on slavery and indenture history and its relevance today. The Great Experiment Resource Pack