Fatima Ousseni is a contemporary art collector, feminist, and first female lawyer in the overseas French territory of Mayotte. [1] [2] [3]
Fatima Ousseni is considered an inspiration for girls in the Mayotte, a country in which "girls are predestined to marry after two or three years of college". Second female lawyer from Mayotte, Kassurati Mattoir, indicated in an interview that Fatima Ousseni inspired her to pursue the law profession during a project that took place in her school "about the place of women in Mayotte". Kassurati Mattoir later received her JDM as a mentee in the office of Fatima Ousseni. [1] [3]
Fatima Ousseni was a co-organizer of the Mayotte "Contemporary Arts 2016" exhibition. [4]
She is also the organising secretary of the Zangoma Association, which in 2015 organised the "Africa and Science" exhibition to showcase the scientific contributions of the African scientist Cheikh Anta Diop, whose work Fatima Ousseni described as the "first technological revolutions absolutely unknown". [5]
Maore Comorian, or Shimaore, is one of the two indigenous languages spoken in the French-ruled Comorian islands of Mayotte; Shimaore being a dialect of the Comorian language, while ShiBushi is an unrelated Malayo-Polynesian language originally from Madagascar. Historically, Shimaore- and ShiBushi-speaking villages on Mayotte have been clearly identified, but Shimaore tends to be the de facto indigenous lingua franca in everyday life, because of the larger Shimaore-speaking population. Only Shimaore is represented on the local television news program by Mayotte La Première. The 2002 census references 80,140 speakers of Shimaore in Mayotte itself, to which one would have to add people living outside the island, mostly in metropolitan France. There are also 20,000 speakers of Comorian in Madagascar, of which 3,000 are Shimaore speakers.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998) was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. She is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Ghada Amer is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery.
Barthélémy Toguo is a Cameroonian painter, visual and performing artist. He currently splits his time living and working in both Paris, France and Bandjoun, Cameroon. He works in a variety of media aside from visual and performing arts including photographs, prints, sculptures, videos, and installations.
Mayotte Magnus is a French-born photographer and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, who has lived most of her adult life in England. She has exhibited at the Fonds national d'art contemporain (1974), the National Portrait Gallery (1977) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1981).
Tsuneko Taniuchi, born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1946, is a contemporary artist, who uses performance as her main medium. Her practice, which oscillates between scripted situations and participatory works, aims to question cultural, social, and sexual constructions, linked to notions of identity, immigrations, and feminism.
Pélagie Gbaguidi (1965-) is a Beninese artist who lives and works in Brussels. She is most well-known for her series of paintings and drawings titled “le Code noir” which evokes the violence of the slave trade and its effected trauma on the following generations of Western African cultures.
The Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, located in the canton of Neuchâtel in the Switzerland, organizes temporary exhibitions three times a year. Showcasing prints, photographs, installations and paintings, solo and thematic exhibitions take place in a 2,000 m2 space. These exhibitions of Swiss and international art, past and present, highlight both emerging and established artists. Open to all techniques and mixed media in particular, MBAL also organises the Triennale de l'art imprimé contemporain .
A by-election was held in Mayotte's 1st constituency on 18 March 2018, with a second round on 25 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Ramlati Ali, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) in the June 2017 legislative elections and member of the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly, on 19 January 2018.
Faiz Mattoir is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Dutch Eerste Divisie club Almere City. Born in Mayotte, France, he plays for the Comoros national team.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the French overseas department and region of Mayotte on 10 March 2020. On 31 March, the first person died of COVID-19. In late April, the virus was out of control, and actively circulating on the island. On 16 August, Mayotte has been green listed.
Amina Zoubir is a contemporary artist, filmmaker and performer from Algiers, Algeria. She is known as a feminist performer through video-actions entitled Take your place, which she directed in 2012 during the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence, aiming to question gender issues and conditions of women in Algerian society. She has worked with different art mediums such as sculpture, drawing, installation art, performance and video art. Her work relates to notions of body language in specific spaces of North Africa territories.
Christine Eyene is a Cameroonian art critic, art historian, and curator.
Safaa Erruas, born in 1976 in Tétouan, is a Moroccan artist.
Radia Bent Lhoucine (1912–1994) was a self-taught Moroccan artist who began painting in her later years, and whose work has been exhibited and sold at galleries in Africa and Europe.
Zakia Madi was a Mahoran activist and a member of the Chatouilleuses and who was killed by the Comorian army during a protest in 1969. Both the market and a school in Mayotte have been renamed in her honour.
Estelle Youssouffa is a French politician who has served as a Member of the French Parliament for Mayotte's 1st constituency since June 2022.
Miss Mayotte is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the overseas region of Mayotte. The competition was first held in 2000.
Mireille Laufilitoga is a politician from Wallis and Futuna. She has been a member of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna since 2012, serving as president of the Permanent Committee from 2017 to 2022. An independent, she represents the Mua District.