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Marronnage: the Bushinengué of Guyana claim their history

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Tapanaoni dyuka house, Guyana (1970).

© Jean Hurault

By: Véronique Gaymard Follow

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The abolition of slavery has been celebrated since 1848 in France, but not marooning, the resistance to slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries.

In Guyana, on the American continent, the Black Maroons or Bushinengué fled the plantations of neighboring Surinam where the colonial system was particularly cruel, to take refuge in the forest, along the Maroni River.

How were these societies formed, and how is this history of maroonage transmitted today?

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On the occasion of the exhibition "Marronnage, the art of breaking one's chains" at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, Boni artists and historians shed light on their past and on the transmission of their culture to younger generations.

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where the exhibition takes place.

Guests:

• Jean Moomou,

  historian Boni, lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies, author of " 

  Les brunes boni de Guyane: Struggles and survival in colonial logic (1712-1880)

   ", published by Ibis Rouge (published in 2013)

• Carlos Adaoudé, tembé

  artist (tembéman) from Papaïchton

• Antoine Dinguiou, tembé

  artist (tembéman) from Papaïchton

• Shirley Abakamofou, tembé 

  artist (tembéwoman) from Papaïchton, lives in Saint-Laurent du Maroni

• Geneviève Wiels,

  co-curator of the exhibition "Marronnage, the art of breaking one's chains"

• Thomas Mouzard,

  co-curator of the exhibition "Marronnage, the art of breaking one's chains"

• Jean-Marc Ayrault,

  former Prime Minister, President of the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery

• Hervé Télémaque,

  painter of Haitian origin.

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