Zakia Madi

Zakia Madi (1944 - 1969) 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.

Biography

Born in Ouangani in 1944, Madi was one of the leaders of the Chatouilleuses,[1] a Mahoran women's movement who supported the French claim to Mayotte.[2] Other women in the movement included Zéna M'Déré and Bweni M'Titi,[3] as well as Zaïna Méresse and Echati Maoulida.[4][5]

Madi was killed in Mamoudzou on 13 October 1969 during clashes with the Comorian guard in Mamoudzou.[1][6][7] Whilst around twenty people were injured, hers was the only fatality.[8] Due to her death reconciliation between the Mahoré People's Movement and Said Mohamed Cheikh's Parti Vert proved impossible.[9][10]

Commemoration

The Mahoran writer Alain-Kamal Martial wrote a play about her, entitled Zakia Madi: la chatouilleuse, which was published in 2004.[11][12] The covered market of Mamoudzou was named after Madi in 2014.[8] Collège Zakia Madi in Mayotte is also named after her.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Départementalisation de Mayotte : sortir de l'ambiguïté, faire face aux responsabilités". www.senat.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  2. ^ Gohin, Olivier. "Mayotte: la longue marche vers le droit commun." Revue juridique de l'Océan Indien NS-2009 (2009): 5-18.
  3. ^ Denis, Isabelle (2006). "Les lieux de mémoire à Mayotte". Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire. 93 (350): 157–173. doi:10.3406/outre.2006.4196.
  4. ^ Inter, France (2019-10-21). "Qui sont les "Chatouilleuses", ces militantes de Mayotte à qui Emmanuel Macron va rendre hommage ?". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  5. ^ Perzo, Anne (April 12, 2014). "Décès de Zaïna Méresse – Le Journal De Mayotte actualité". Le Journal De Mayotte (in French). Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Sub-Saharan Africa Report. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1984.
  7. ^ Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2017-08-01). MAYOTTE 2017/2018 Petit Futé (in French). Petit Futé. ISBN 979-10-331-6413-5.
  8. ^ a b "Le Journal De Mayotte". 2016-04-05. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  9. ^ Walker, Iain (2019). Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-007130-1.
  10. ^ Jollivet, Charly (2017). "L'apport du fonds Foccart pour l'histoire des Comores (1958-1974)". In Bat, Jean-Pierre; Forcade, Olivier; Mary, Sylvain (eds.). Jacques Foccart: archives ouvertes (1958-1974): La politique, l'Afrique et le monde (in French). Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. pp. 255–264. ISBN 9791023105605. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-20.
  11. ^ "Hommage à ZAKIA MADI, une combattante - chatouilleuse de la lutte pour Mayotte française". Mayotte la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  12. ^ Martial, Alain-Kamal (2004-05-01). Zakia Madi: La chatouilleuse (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-36131-7.
  13. ^ "Collège Zakia Madi - de Dembéni". clg-dembeni.ac-mayotte.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-20.