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Entretien avec Nassur Attoumani

Abstract

Writer-actor-composer-playwright-founder of cultural institutions-former DJ of African dance parties, Nassur Attoumani, a multifaceted man wearing his notorious pith helmet is one of the most important artistic voices of the Comoros Archipelago. In this interview, Nassur Attoumani talks about a literary language and identities, literature networks, the „postcolonial“ writer as (un)conscious translator, the absent reader, the humanitarian crisis related with the „migration“ from the islands of Anjouan, Mohéli and Grande Comore to Mayotte and the myth of the pith helmet he has been proudly wearing for several decades.