Stopover in Djibouti
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.
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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.
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