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bonjour je vous donne un titre de chanson que l, on entend partout dans les hotels en rd qui est tres entrenante mueve la colita..et aussi chacha slide ...2 chansons de punta cana et de puerto plata bye nicole😉😉

namaste. pour moi le must de la musique indienne c'est trilok gurtu😎 good trip a tous

Bonjour, Je suis étudiante en commerce international et j'ai trouver un stage de 3 mois a bombay!

Mon employeur m'a trouver un logement, que je n'arrive pas a situer avec maporama, mais mon entreprise a l'air sérieuse!

Cependant, il n'y a pas de vol qui arrive le jour, et étant donnée que je voyage seule, est ce qu'il n'est pas risqué de prendre un taxi pour Bombay? et ou aller?😕

Si vous avez des petits tuyaux, ou toutes autres infos sur bombay, les coins sympas, les choses a faires ou a voir, elles seront acceptées avec grand plaisir!!

Merci.

Bonjour,

Qui peut me dire les étapes indispensables de la route 66 de CHICAGO à LOS ANGELES, pour un départ prévu au mois de Septembre pendant 3 semaines (je voulais faire ce voyage au mois de Juin, mais je pense qu'il est trop tard pour tout mettre au point) afin de ne rien louper de cette route mythique. Merci à tous de vos renseignements.

Laurence

J'en ai vu tellement que je n'arrive pas a me rappeller du nom de celui ci. Je me souviens que c'est la ou la famille royale viens se recueillir ce qui explque qu'il soit si ... " beau" 🤪 mais son nom ???



Merci !

bonjour, je souhaiterai avoir plein, mais alors, plein, plein (!!) dinfos sur madagascar: quels sont les medicaments a emmener? peut on y venir en bateau de lile de la reunion? peut on facilemnt travailler dans lhumanitaire? y a ti des personnes pretes a nous loger, marianne est moi a notre arrivée a tana debut fevrier?.... si vous pouvez repondre a ses questions, merci, vous maideriez pas mal!!! si vous avez dautres conseils, tous pleins de conseils, je suis preneuse!! merci davance maud et marianne

Infirmier polyvalent depuis maintenant 8 ans sur France et Suisse, je pars pour un voyage à but personnel avec mon amie, dans la région du Kérala, et du Tamil Nadu . Nous y serons du 11 janvier 2006, jusqu'au 23 juin 2006 . Nous sommes ouverts à toute proposition de bénévolat . Nous avons déjà quelques pistes, mais quelques autres recoupant les notres seraient les bienvenues... Alors, à bientôt !...Et bonne fêtes . 😏Namasté

Bonjour a tous, je suis francais d'origine marocaine et je sais que l'expatriation au maroc est un sujet souvent aborder, mais la difficultee est d'avoir une aide pour chaque cas, je vous cite le mien: jeune de 31 ans j'exerce une fonction ou je peux me retrouver a la retraite dans 4 ans mais ds ce cas avec une pension minime d'environ 600€. je peux continuer a travailler plus longtemps pour avoir une pension plus importante mais bon, le probleme est de savoir si je peux vivre aisement a agadir avec cette pension, ville que je connais bien et ou j'ai une maison aux amicales pour ceux qui connaissent le quartier, ou dois je continuer encore a travailler seulement le maroc me manque, et j'en ai un peu ras le bol de toujours avoir qquechose a payer en france😠. De ce fait, j' investirai eventuellement ds une societe pour augmenter mes fins de mois. Avis aux amateurs pour des idees😇. En fait s'il ya un pro du fisc marocain, peut il me dire combien je paierai d'impot en tant que MRE expatrier et a la retraite avec les 40% et 80% de ristourne et 600€ de revenu🤪. Merci pour vos reponses, et vous dis a bientot

bonjour bonjour! je suis fan de Bollywood, ces films indiens qui durent au minimum 3 heures et qui sont tout en musique, couleurs, danses, chants... je n'en connais pas beaucoup mais si vous avez quelques bons titres à me proposer pour que je puisse continuer à écarquiller les yeux devant mon poste de télé, ça serait super sympa! merci a tous (ttes)!

A toute personne qui a eu son voyage bercé par Salaam Namasté (Preity et Saif Khan) en septembre / octobre dans les salles obscures indiennes, le DVD est déjà en précommande sur le site de l'éditeur !!! Perso shui en transe à l'idée de recevoir ce chef d'oeuvre ultime (héhéhé pas de dédommagement c'est personnel comme pour vous peut etre).

Applaudissons à l'intelligence d'un éditeur indien qui livre son dvd en "cassant" le piratage, je le recois fin novembre sT french por favor !

Désolé ce film est l'hymne de mon voyage, donc si ce message est supprimé pour pub je comprends !

Pour info également (ca c plus pour la communauté), je l'ai vu au Jag Mantar à Jaipur, avec un couple d'israeliens de Tel Aviv que j'avais rencontré à Varanasi qq jours plus tot, le monde est petit, l'Inde aussi, TOOOOP... autant dire que ce jour là (de mousson, 10 cm de flotte géniale dans la ville), j'étais vraiment au bout du monde !!!!

Recherchez le Jag Mantar à Jaipur (demandez au ciclo rickshaw 15 rps, pas loin de Niro's, et environ 60rps pour les places de luxe (80 rps en loge) et 20 avec les jeunes coqs indiens), c'est un ciné des mille et une nuits, c'est top, c'est énorme, c'est mieux qu'un grand rex à Paris, ca dure 3 heures et vous riez et pleurez sans rien comprendre, d'ailleurs, vous pleurez, vous riez, c'est l'Inde !!

Et hop un message qui parle des ciné indiens (y compris à Delhi celui qui diffuse en 70mm à Pahargang, et oui, le Futuroscope c gentil, l'Inde c'est mieux 😏😏😏).

Mitch

😊😊Mon mari désire voyager, si je démissionne pour le suivre, ai-je droit aux allocations de chomage? Quelqu'un ou quelqu'une a été dans mon cas? Que puis-je faire? merci à toutes les réponses.

Bonjour,

Je suis allée en Inde plusieurs fois et je voudrais, lors de mon prochain voyage, rester plus longtemps et aider les soeurs de Mère Thérésa à Calcutta. Je voudrais des témoignages et des conseils. On peut vraiment arriver la bas comme ça? J'ai lu les carnets de Pascal ce matin, ça m'a fait pleurer d'émotion. Oui, je sais je suis pas arrivée..

Bonjour à tous,

Je pense passer la fin de mon tour du monde en Inde. Normalement (si je prends pas de retard sur les pays précédents), j'ai 80 jours.

Voici le planning que j'ai prévu avec en-dessous, les trucs qu'ont l'air chouette :

Himalaya > 15 jours Randonnée Ladak

Sud de Dehli > 10 jours Agra Taj Mahal Parc nat. Keoladeo Ghana Gwalior, Datia et Orvhha

Rajasthan > 10 jours Jaipur Jodhpur Udaipur (avion jusqu’à Bombay)

en train de bombay à Goa…

Goa et le kerala > 15 jours Visite et plages à Goa Descente en train jusqu’à Conchin Backwaters

Tamil Nadu > 15 jours Madurai Pondichery Kanchipuram Madras

Sri Lanka > 15 jours

Alors soyez sûr que je sais que c hyper chargé. Ce que je voudrais c'est vos coups de coeur, savoir si je dois faire des choix ce que vous avez préféré... 2 impératifs pour moi : 1. j'ai pas envie de finir par Madras (vu qu'après c'est le retour à Paris) et donc que je terminerai bien mon TDM par les plages srilankaises. 2. je veux absolument faire mon trek au laddak.

Une réserve également... je suis pas sure de bien supporter ce que beaucoup mon décrit comme du "harcèlement" au Radjahstan... Vos avis ?

i am alone in kolkatta...

venais me rejoindre sur les recits de voyages, pour tout info

a bientot

Nombre d'entre vous avez sans doute déjà reçu cette lettre envoyée le lendemain du premier attentat à Londres . Me sentant concernée (malgré nos convictions et pensées, nous faisons partie de " l'axe du bien " 🤪) et ayant été fortement touchée par ce message, je voulais le faire partager.

A Letter to the British People from a daughter of Iraq I'm sending this letter to the British people and in particular to the residents of London. For a period of hours, you have lived through moments of desperate anxiety and horror. In those hours you lost a member of your family or a friend, and we wish to tell you in total honesty that we too grieve when human lives pass away. I cannot tell you how much we hurt whenwe see desperation and pain on the face of another person. For we have lived through this situation - and continue to live through it every day - sinceyour country and the United States formed an alliance and laid plans to attack Iraq. The Prime Minister of your country, Tony Blair, said that those who carried out the explosions did so in the name of Islam. The Secretary of State ofthe United States, Condaleezza Rice, described the bombings as an act of barbarism. The United Nations Security Council met and unanimously condemned the event. I would like to ask you, the free British people, to allow me to inquire: in Whose name was our country blockaded for 12 years? In whose name were our cities bombed using internationally prohibited weapons? In whose name did the British army kill Iraqis and torture them? Was that in your name? Or in the name of religion? Or humanity? Or freedom? Or democracy? What do you call the killing of more than two million children? What do you call the pollution of the soil and the water with depleted uranium and other lethal substances? What do you call what happened in the prisons in Iraq - in Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and the many other prison camps? What do you call the torture of men, women, and children? What do you call tying bombs to the bodies of prisoners and blowing them apart? What do you call the refinement of methods of torture for use on Iraqi prisoners - such as pulling off limbs, gouging out eyes, putting out cigarettes on their skin, and using cigarette lighters to set fire to the hair on their heads? Does the word "barbaric" adequately describe the behavior of your troops in Iraq? May we ask why the Security Council did not condemn the massacre in al-Amiriyah and what happened in al-Fallujah, Tal'afar, Sadr City, and an-Najaf? Why does the world watch as our people are killed and tortured and not condemn the crimes being committed against us? Are you human beings and we something less? Do you think that only you can feel pain and we can't? In fact it is we who are most aware of how intense is the pain of the mother who has lost her child, or the father who has lost his family. We know very well how painful it is to lose those you love. You don't know our martyrs, but we know them. You don't remember them, but we remember them. You don't cry over them, but we cry over them. Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa'id Shabram? Yes, our dead have names too. They have faces and stories and memories. There was a time when they were among us, laughing and playing. They had dreams, just as you have. They had a tomorrow awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which to wake. We don't hate the British people or the peoples of the world. This war was imposed upon us, but we are now fighting it in defense of our selves. Because we want to live in our homeland - the free land of Iraq - and to live as we want to live, not as your government or the American government wish. Let the families of those killed know that responsibility for the Thursday morning London bombings lies with Tony Blair and his policies. Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!

Iman al-Saadun, Friday, 8 July 2005

Salut à tous !

ça y est ! Plus qu'une semaine ! Nous partons à 3 ! Moi est deux autres jeunes femmes rencontrées sur ce site ! Nous atterissons à Delhi puis prenons le train pour Calcutta dans la foulée direction dispensaire de mere Theresa Y a t'il des personnes qui en revienne ?

Si quelqu'un veut se joindre à nous ou a des renseignement concernant la vie là bas nous sommes preuneuses de toutes infos où experiences

Par avance merci

Isabelle

Salut à tous, Je serai en Inde du 15 juillet au 15 août pour me rendre utile. J'ai entendu dire que les dispensaires de mère theresa acceptaient les volontaires directement sur place, avez vous des infos complémentaires (logement, missions, ...) ou des adresses d'association recrutant à Delhi ou calcutta...? Toutes les infos seront les bienvenues... Merci d'avance!!

bonjour tous!

quelle est la distance entre Agra et Varanasi et combien de temps faut il pour faire le voyage soit en train soit en bus? est il possible de faire un crochet pour se rendre a Khajuraho?

meme chose pour le trajet varanasi-calcutta en fesant un detour par patna

nous restons 2 mois en inde et nous avons un peu de mal a évaluer les distances ainsi que le temps des trajets, c'est notre premier voyage en inde...

merci 😉

😊 bonjour

Avec mon chéri nous allons passer trois semaines en Inde de mi avril à début mai 05.. nous allons voyager de Bombay à cochin en passant par hampi, goa, Mysore etc ..

nous voulons louer des motos or j'ai mon permis moto mais pas mon fiancé savez vous si on peut louer des motos sans permis (genre des 125?) ??

Bises à tous les routards !!

Bonjour à tous, Je suis actuellement en train de préparer un voyage en camionnette entre la France et le Népal. Nous passerons par l'Italie, la Croatie, la Serbie, le Montenegro, la Bulgarie, la Turquie, l'Iran, le Pakistan et l'Inde. Le départ est prévu pour le mois de septembre ou Octobre... Notre équipe rassemble pour l'instant 6 personnes: David, un artiste plastique qui a un projet humanitaire au Népal; Magalie et Jérémy, membres actifs de l'association Indreni qui s'occupe d'un orphelinat à Katmandou; Allen, un voyageur Algérien; et Alex, qui reviendra surement par l' autre coté de la terre; Ben, photographe. Il nous manque donc deux personnes pour que "le convoi de l'humanité" puisse lever l' encre. Avis donc, a toutes personnes ayant un projet humanitaire, de voyage ou d'étude, etc... contacter moi! (bourses possibles, si on s'y prend maintenant) La camionnette sera peinte de l'itinéraire pour que le contact puisse ce faire facilement avec les populations locales... Le master roule au diesel et est en exelent état... Merci a tous pour toutes infos et suggestions a propo d' un tel voyage...

voilà, nous partons du 4 juin au 4 aout découvrir le sud de l'inde à sac à dos. nous arrivons d'abord à madras puis nous descendons à pondichery puis madurai, ensuite cochin, kovalam puis on remonte vers goa et enfin nous repartons de bombay. Si vous avez des sites à nous conseilller sur notre parcours, des infos concernant un peu toute les villes ou nous allons passer ou encore des recommandations, merci de prendre quelques minutes pour me répondre. merci encore à tous baptiste

Bonsoir a toutes et a tous.. Je repars donc pour l'Inde au moi de fevrier prochain, mon voyage s'etalera sur deux mois,

durant le premier mois j'aimerai faire de l'humanitaire a Bombay ou dans les environs, si quelqun as des adresses, assoc, foyer, contact.. je serais tres intéréssé!

Durant le second moi je compte reparcourir le sud de l'inde.

S'il y a donc des gens intéréssé pour venir avec moi dans ce magnifique pays, cela serait avec grand plaisir!

Bon voyage a tous.

Philippe

Je dois partir 3 semaines à partir de 7 août 2005, quel est la température à ce moment la ? y a t il beaucoup de pluies ?

salut

mon prochain grand voyage devrait être la traversée Est/Ouest des USA en partant de NY jusqu'à LA. Je compte louer une voiture sur place.

L'idéal pour moi serait de passer par Chicago puis de filer dans le nord ouest, faire les parcs, puis descendre jusqu'à LA.

Y a t'il des personnes qui l'ont deja fait. Pouvez vous me donner qq infos sur l'itinéraire conseillé ? Est ce qu'en 3 semaines c'est suffisant ?

Merci pour vos infos.

wbc

Re coucou,

Ca se précise de minute en minute : sur 524 de connus, 212 / 180.

comme beaucoup de gens sur ce forum savent que je pars dans le sud de l'inde, je me pose une autre question essentiel, est'il necessaire pour le mois d'avril et mai de prendre ces saloperies???(nivaquine palludrine).

A+

vince

Nous envisageons un trek dans le nord de l'Inde avec notre petite fille Aruni, qui aura 3 ans à ce moment là. Le profil du voyage est : 2 semaines entre 2000 et 4000 m d'altitude avec un cheval pour le portage. Nous aimerions avoir des échanges avec des familles ayant eu ce type d'expérience ( particulièrement concernant l'effet de l'altitude sur un petit enfant ). merci, patrice&sheela 😏

"400 pages of verbal pyrotechnics and animal magic" — The Times

"Bulawayo leans into exaggeration and irony to tell hard truths. *Glory* is jam-packed with comedy and farce, poking fun at an autocratic regime while illustrating the absurdity and surreal nature of a police state." — The Guardian

The cruelty and savagery of Zimbabwe’s (and Africa’s in general) "powerful animals"

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo has written a novel that illustrates better than any documentary the complexity of colonial legacy. In doing so, she revisits George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Her novel *Glory* is a political satire about Zimbabwe—and it’s brimming with humor.

For thirty years, Zimbabwe has been stagnating under Robert Mugabe’s presidency. Human rights violations, corruption, and international sanctions have kept the population mired in poverty and oppression, while the regime exploits the meager earnings of the economy. As the 2017 elections approach, a power struggle erupts over the succession of the very elderly Father of the Nation (Mugabe). On the streets, people hope for long-awaited reforms; the people feel their moment has come.

And indeed, the army ousts Mugabe and his wife—"with her Gucci heels" (p.32)—who was positioning herself for the presidency. Hopes are dashed, however. The generals install former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa in power; the regime merely changes faces, but the problems remain the same.

In the novel, the country is called "Jidada, with a -da and another -da" (p.1); there’s no mistaking that this fictional state is Zimbabwe.

For *Glory*, her second novel, NoViolet Bulawayo invents a whole series of codes whose strength lies precisely in how easy they are to decipher. Like George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the characters populating Bulawayo’s universe aren’t humans but horses, goats, or crocodiles with all-too-human traits. Mugabe and Mnangagwa are horses, the spiritual leader is a pig, the soldiers are all bloodthirsty dogs, while the populace consists of goats, chickens, donkeys, and cats. The shift to the animal world serves only to better grasp the laws of despotism—and to ridicule real-life models. On one hand, the animals are humanized: they tweet, torture, travel in private jets. On the other, their greed, stupidity, and brutality stem from their animal nature.

It’s the old trick of fable: dressing men in animal disguises to make them easier to recognize. That’s how Orwell, in Animal Farm, traced how the promise of liberation from the Russian Revolution turned into Stalinist terror. In his 1945 fable, George Orwell describes how the animals of a farm drive out their farmer to organize the exploitation themselves, collectively. For a time, they truly taste freedom, but a clique of pigs ends up taking control. The central figures of the Soviet story—Stalin, Trotsky, Molotov—were easily recognizable.

Yet Bulawayo departs sharply from Orwell. She’s less concerned with precision and the force of argument than with satirical exaggeration. The deposed president is a senile old man who believes he can control even the sun’s course. The new stallion in power is a greedy debaucher. His soldiers sniff respectfully at his tail and backside.

In Bulawayo’s *Glory*, things are more complicated, but her novel also tells of a failed, incomplete liberation. In the author’s Animal Farm, Jidada, the colonial exploiters are followed by new forms of oppression. Because the former liberators become tyrants themselves. And because global power dynamics persist in neocolonial structures.

Wouldn’t that be enough to fuel a deeply depressing narrative? No—Bulawayo turns it into a blazing satire, full of wit and uncompromising criticism of power, a thread running through contemporary (not just) Zimbabwean history. The old warhorses in NoViolet Bulawayo’s Jidada, who continue to act as pack leaders, are easily recognizable as caricatures of the longtime dictator Robert Mugabe and his successor, current president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The plot kicks off in high gear with independence day festivities. From the crack of dawn, everyone waits on Jidada Square for the Old Horse, the Father of the Nation and former liberator, whose reign "was nearing all of—not one, not two, not three, but four solid decades" (p.1). Everywhere, the colors of the Jidada Party shine; everywhere, true supporters cheer. Even the scorching sun plays its part: "At this point the sun, upon seeing arrive the leader who was decreed by God himself to rule and rule and keep ruling, a leader who'd in turn decreed the very sun to head his cheerleading squad, took a deep, deep breath and thoroughly blazed to impress" (p.2).

Finally, the Old Horse’s luxury carriage approaches "with the slowness of a hearse" (p.2), and "hoping to catch a glimpse of the legendary Father of the Nation," which causes "the animals fell over themselves like intoxicated frogs" (p.2). The sovereign’s speech is delayed a moment longer: "what I really want is a nap," groans the Old Horse as he takes his seat with such care "like his backside was made of expensive porcelain" (p.6).

Meanwhile, Bulawayo parades his entourage: the president’s wife (who earns her doctorate at Jidada University faster than "you could say diss, for dissertation. Tholukuthi it was as easy as ordering from a KFC drive-through, or perhaps even easier being that it was cheaper than KFC; it in fact cost her nothing and the degree actually came with a zero-calorie Diet Coke and a purple straw" (p.41), and she’s now known as Dr Sweet Mother. The cabinet includes "the Minister of the Revolution, the Minister of Corruption, the Minister of Order, the Minister of Things, the Minister of Nothing, the Minister of Propaganda, the Minister of Homophobic Affairs, the Minister of Disinformation and the Minister of Looting" (p.9). And of course the vice-president, who will soon become interim president when the Old Horse finally kicks the bucket—and then settle in as the new long-term president, who in the novel is called Tuvius Delight Shasha, or "Tuvy" for short (p.253), none other than Emmerson Mnangagwa. It’s him Bulawayo reserves her most merciless character description for.

"New Dispensation" (p.109) is Tuvy’s slogan for Jidada, and he loves repeating it so much he even named his parrot after it ("So inspired was Tuvy by the realisation that he rechristened his new pet parrot with the name New Dispensation—tholukuthi the bird having been acquired explicitly for the purposes of tweeting eulogies and accordingly glorifying the Saviour throughout the airs and skies of the nation. Tuvy then went on to hire a lecturer in English from the University of Jidada to teach New Dispensation to say the phrase 'New Dispensation'" p.110). But Tuvy’s Zimbabwe remains a nation without free, fair, and credible elections ("#freefairncredibleelection" p.161), and the promised equal treatment applies only insofar as Zimbabweans now queue up without discrimination in endless lines—and everyone is as poor as the next in the "queuenation" (p.283). Except for the powerful. They can "yes, tholukuthi, her immeasurable riches theirs to take. And take they did—

just take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take—take" (p.249-250).

In short: Bulawayo brilliantly depicts how former independence fighters become exploiters themselves. And how the country threatens to suffocate under the weight of corruption and repression. But she also literally stages the polyphony with which the people oppose imposed obedience to the official line.

Controversial online discussions keep interrupting the narrative—dialogues and social threads (see photo below) that Bulawayo masterfully integrates. From a literary standpoint, it’s a brilliant idea. And it shows, above all, that the author’s sympathy—so likeable—goes to all those who refuse to let their dream of true freedom be stolen, not even by the corrupt elites of their own country.

In the book’s acknowledgments, the first tribute goes to "The Jidadas of the world, clamouring for freedom on many fronts—A luta continua." (p.401) This reflects the realization that, not only in Jidada-Zimbabwe but in many other corners of the world, the end of colonial domination is still far from meaning the freedom hoped for by the vast majority of people. But it also means, more broadly, that this freedom must be won "on many fronts" (see above), both domestically and geopolitically.

That’s precisely what *Glory* so vividly highlights: how complex the project behind the term "postcolonialism" really is. With *Glory*, Bulawayo also delivers a scathing critique of the persistence of colonial mindsets in the West.

In the novel, the murder of George Floyd, racist police violence, and white-supremacist ideology in Trump’s United States perfectly illustrate the persistence of racism. It’s especially in the final chapters that Bulawayo lets Jidada’s inhabitants explicitly and unflinchingly criticize a neocolonial world order:

"It was not lost on us how the West, which loved to 'save' Africa and announce every action to the whole world, did so with one limb while manipulating, looting and fleecing us with the rest of its limbs so that more money in fact poured out of the continent than trickled in." (p.376)

"It was no mistake that multinational corporations yearly reaped and shipped colossal profits from Africa back to their countries as had been the case during colonial times. Even the sticks and stones would tell you that the African earth at any given time howled and shook and heaved from the extraction of its precious minerals that rarely benefited its own miserable children." (p.376)

"(...) we vowed to wage yet another war for Africa's second Liberation from neocolonial oppression. From exploitation. From plunder. From Western dominion. From indignity. From Abuse. We wanted real freedom. We wanted greedy, thieving paws off our wealth. We wanted Justice. We wanted a new world; we wanted a brand-new world so much we didn't sleep a wink that night." (p.377)

The Jidadas of this world must fight two enemies: Western neocolonialism and the autocratic instrumentalization of that argument; the persistence of Western racism and the populist appropriation of that humiliation by tyrants from their own ranks. Neither of these obstacles to freedom diminishes the historical and current guilt of the other. But the path to postcolonial liberation must overcome all these forms of oppression. After all, the colonizers didn’t bequeath democracies to formerly dominated nations, but instability and the principles of oppression and exploitation—which the so-called liberators have also internalized. Yet the fact that a satirical novel can capture the complexity of historical relationships while remaining, despite all the darkness of the subject, hilarious—well, that’s truly astonishing.

Finally, *Glory* ties into a major trauma in Zimbabwe’s post-independence history: the so-called Gukurahundi massacres. Between 1983 and 1987, tens of thousands of civilians were murdered by Mugabe’s bloody henchmen, most of them Ndebele. The State Security Minister and head of secret services at the time? You guessed it—Emmerson Mnangagwa.

When *Glory* turns to the massacres, the novel’s tone shifts completely. The story is now told through the narrative of the goat called Destiny, who, like NoViolet Bulawayo herself, left her home country at 18 for the United States and only returned after 13 years. In the book, the city of Bulawayo becomes a village where Destiny retraces her family’s history—and learns that part of it was also brutally murdered during the massacres.

The abuse of power and life under a dictatorship, dispossession, and a fiercely proud awareness of the psychological wounds and emotional vulnerability of a uprooted and disenfranchised people who had to forge a new language—a new set of names—to express their lived experiences are at the heart of this wonderful Zimbabwean author’s literary work, NoViolet Bulawayo. Shortly after her studies, she was already writing short stories about postcolonial power dynamics in Africa. But her playful, masterful, and often unconventional approach to language also plays a key role in her work. With virtuosity, she shifts from cynical images of power-obsessed elites to compassionate descriptions of the people’s suffering, ending with a hopeful sermon on courage—the courage to break free from fear and thus gain the strength for change ("And every one of them understood that whatever they heard within those hearts was the new national anthem, tholukuthi an anthem that spoke of the kind of glory that burns eternal and glows with living light." p.400). This novel is a genuine pleasure to read. And it’s exceptional. Good, African...

Book info (original English and German translation):

NoViolet Bulawayo. Glory. Chatto & Windus, 2022. NoViolet Bulawayo. Glory. Suhrkamp, 2023.

Hery

The books (in English, in German)

Author NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Threads (p.164-165)

Good evening everyone! 🙂

We’re back from our September 2025 road trip, this time to explore Arizona and New Mexico, and it’s time for me to start my travel journal—especially since everything’s already booked for another trip in September 2026 (to California), and I need to get started on the planning.

I was a little worried this new visit to Uncle Sam’s country might not be as "wow" as the others, but we still discovered some incredible places.

For those who don’t know us, we’re a couple in our seventies who speak very little English, but that didn’t stop us from fully enjoying our stay.

For this 6th road trip in the U.S., we spent 21 nights there, drove 4,160 km by car, and walked nearly 160 km in a loop starting from Phoenix.

We’d been to Arizona before (but not this side) and never to New Mexico. This whole road trip was a huge discovery for us.

In the prices mentioned (some in euros, others in dollars), bank fees and exchange charges are included. The flights, car rental, and parking were all paid for in December 2024 when we booked.

We’d downloaded the MPC (Mobile Passport Control) app, but there wasn’t a dedicated line at Phoenix Airport. Still, we got through quickly with friendly, smiling agents.

I don’t drive at all (I hate it), so the stops were chosen based on activities but also, for some, to limit daily mileage for the sole driver. The kilometers listed in the itinerary are the daily distances.

We traveled from September 9th to 22nd, unfortunately once again without our dear friends Mimi and Maumau.

The itinerary



Day 1: Flight Marseille-Paris-Phoenix, then Gold Canyon (133 km) Day 2: Tucson (271 km) Lost Dutchman State Park Day 3: Tucson (155 km) Day 4: Tucson (34 km) Day 5: Bisbee (182 km) Day 6: Lordsburg (345 km) Day 7: Las Cruces (253 km) Day 8: Alamogordo (162 km) Day 9: Roswell (264 km) Day 10: Tucumcari (369 km) Day 11: Las Vegas (281 km) – the one in New Mexico Day 12: Taos (213 km) Day 13: Santa Fe (224 km) Day 14: Albuquerque (123 km) Day 15: Gallup (246 km) Day 16: Holbrook (224 km) Day 17: Flagstaff (179 km) Day 18: Sedona (118 km) Day 19: Sedona (48 km) Day 20: Sedona (41 km) Day 21: Phoenix (256 km) Day 22: Phoenix Airport (35 km)

📊 **Budget**: A little over 7,500 € for both of us, all included. The exchange rate was in our favor (1.17 dollars to 1 €). 📊 **Flights**: Marseille-Paris Charles de Gaulle-Phoenix: 1,787 € for two, with one checked bag each (Air France) 📊 **ESTA**: $42 📊 **America the Beautiful Pass**: $80 📊 **Parking**: 134 € (super eco at Marseille) 📊 **Car rental (Hertz)**: 865 €. Since there were no SUVs left in the reserved category (Nissan Rogue), we got an upgrade (4x4 Ford Explorer). We booked through Air France (15% discount). We’d originally reserved it in December for 1,140 €, but since prices dropped in March, we canceled and rebooked for 865 €. Hertz offers a free Hertz Gold Plus Rewards program, which gives you priority counter service when picking up the car. 📊 **Accommodation**: 2,400 € We stayed in hotels and motels of varying standards (from 60 to 203 € per night, depending on the city), all booked through Booking.com or Hotels.com. Out of 21 nights, only two didn’t include breakfast in the price. Booking.com sometimes offers slightly cheaper rates if you book by phone using the mobile app, and our Genius 3 status on the site also got us some preferential rates. 📊 **Supplementary insurance**: AVA 200 € for medical care if needed 📊 **Cash**: $2,078. We left with 1,000 € exchanged before departure and made two withdrawals of $500. This cash covered: - Evening restaurants and tips - Midday picnics - Gas: $298 for 4,160 km - Museum and private park entries (per person): - Lost Dutchman: $10 - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: $28 - Bird Cage Theater: $16 - Tombstone Shootout: $8 - New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum: $12 - Roswell International UFO Museum: $5 - Billy the Kid Museum: $7 - Rancho de Taos: $22 - West Fork Oak Creek Trail entry: $15 We got a few discounts thanks to our senior age (+65). - Souvenirs and little treats

Like on our previous road trips, we didn’t rent a GPS. We got around using offline GPS apps Here WeGo and Organic Maps, with maps of the states we visited downloaded before we left (on our phones).

❤️❤️❤️ **Highlights** (there are so many!) 📍 Goldfield Ghost Town (even if it’s a reconstruction) 📍 The standing army of Saguaro cacti at Saguaro National Park West 📍 Diving into the cowboy universe of Tombstone 📍 The welcome from Rick and Henry at our guesthouse in Bisbee (Garden at Mile High Ranch) 📍 The tangled rocks of Chiricahua National Monument 📍 The flavored pistachios from Dwayne’s Fresh Jerky and Mac Ginnis Pistachioland 📍 Restaurants: La Posta (Las Cruces), Diner 66 (Albuquerque), and the Haunted Hamburger (Jerome) 📍 The old plazas of New Mexico 📍 The solitude and beauty of the white dunes at White Sands National Park 📍 Stepping back in time at the Billy the Kid Museum (Fort Stanton) 📍 Sections of historic Route 66 and the old motels of Tucumcari, especially at night when all the neon lights are on 📍 Taos Pueblo and diving into Native American culture 📍 After the Rio Grande Bridge, the descent via NM 567 to the very bottom of the Rio Grande Gorge, then the road along the riverbanks to Taos 📍 The tranquility of the Chimayo Sanctuary 📍 Discovering the ingenious native dwellings at Bandelier National Monument and Walnut Canyon National Park 📍 The small towns along the Turquoise Trail 📍 The red rocks of Red Rock Park and the Painted Desert 📍 The extraordinary colors of the petrified trees at Petrified Forest National Park 📍 Sedona, its red rocks, and the reward of the viewpoints at the end of hikes (Devil’s Bridge, The Subway, and West Fork Oak Creek) 📍 The immersion in Mexico when visiting Tlaquepaque 📍 The almost-ghost town of Jerome and its terraced streets 📍 The incredible kindness of Americans, always ready to help and up for a chat ❤️

☹️☹️☹️ **Flops** (there are very few) 📍 Several museums and churches being closed, so we couldn’t visit them 📍 Some museums and visitor centers opening late (10 AM) and closing early (4 PM) 📍 A 64 € phone roaming charge because we got near the Mexican border and picked up their cell tower 📍 The outrageous price ($5.99) for a gallon of gas at the Shell near Phoenix Airport

I hope this helps! Anyway, thanks for reading my long post. Don’t hesitate to reach out, even via PM, if you see I haven’t replied and you’d like more details. Have a great evening, everyone! 🙂