Stopover in Djibouti

FMM Graphic Studio

By: Ludovic Dunod

End of January 2003. Vladimir Cagnolari, our on-board reporter, is intrigued by a huge anarchic district, between Bibonville and the new town: Balbala.

Publicity

It welcomes new arrivals driven by the rural exodus. It captures the changes in a society that is moving from nomadism to sedentarization. From the bush to the city.

Olivier Frébourg, the writer invited to write an original short story on this stopover, invests the port, sensitive to the atmosphere of these particular places. He also seeks to find the famous ghosts from here: Arthur Rimbaud and Henry de Monfreid.

Newsletter Receive all international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Djibouti
  • Trip

On the same subject

Live elsewhere

How do you live in confinement in Djibouti?

You tell me the news

Abdourahman Waberi, a Djiboutian childhood