PORT AUX BOUTRES

Let's meet on the Orsini quay, early in the morning or late in the day. The dockers doze in the shade of the old Arab counters, the rickshaw drivers rest in their vehicles, the sambo sellers seem to be waiting... Suddenly a dhow arrives and a feverish agitation takes over the quays. Semi-trailers loaded to the brim with cotton rub shoulders with rickshaws crumbling under the weight of fabrics. The dhows painted in red and blue, green and yellow remind us of all the journeys to Zanzibar and Moroni, according to the winds...