MANA MOTU / ISSUE 1

Tusi mai le malaga lelei / transcrire le bon voyageLéuli Eshraghi 2

Daughters of the diaspora Torika Bolatagici 3

AnglophonieLéuli Eshraghi 15

An uncertain futureTaloi Havini 16

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Léuli Eshraghi 20

Urban natives: identity conversations in

Pauline Vetuna 21

Panelist biographies 24-37

Tusi mai le malaga lelei / transcrire le bon voyageBy Léuli Eshraghi> depuis longtempsje me retrouve dans les sons

de nos langues

français calédonien érigé en moi, autour et en toiahou t’es calédonien ?tu votes pour Kanaky pour tous ou pour la République de trousse

des laissés-pour-compte

en dépit des taros Bourbon

sais-tu ce qui se passeautrement ditentends-tu la coquille qui sonnefaux

dans nos contrées

enchantés par

oublient nos originesdénient notre dignitéproclament le fondement actualisé

dans l’Évangile et Genèse

Tagaloa-a-lagi s’entend parler

des derniers maîtres tatoueursdes derniers maîtres tresseurs des derniers maîtres navigateursde nos îles damnées, vouées à l’oubli

lointaines

parsemées sur la mappemonde

travailler plus pour galérer plustravailler dur pour voir le jours’éclipser sans te toucher

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of our languages

in me, around and in youahou, t’es calédonien ?you vote for Kanaky for allor the Republic in the bag

hungry for clear airhungry for yesterday’s yamsdespite the Bourbon taros

do you hear the shell that echoesfalse

in our most personallandsour elders, our youngspellbound by

forget our rootsdeny our dignity

of our volcanoes, rivers and hamletsin Genesis and the Gospel

Tagaloa-a-lagi hears himself speak

of the last master navigatorsof our damned islands, called to be

please? small islandsfarsmall

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complacent anglophonie

aggressive, economicin language self-policypatriated

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Anglophonie. By Léuli Eshraghi

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An uncertain future. By Taloi Havini.

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By Léuli Eshraghi

En moi

d’honneur, ils me chantent

Transposée à une île

honour, they sing to me

Transposed to an island

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Urban Natives:

By Pauline Vetuna

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The curatorial concept behind

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The Apostles 1, 2 + 3

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Forum panelists

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Sana Balai

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Namila Benson

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Torika Bolatagici

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Kirsten Lyttle

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Natalie Pa’apa’a

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Maryann Talia Pau

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