As last generation of Chagos islanders fade, hopes of reviving lost culture is on the horizon 🔴 After being kicked out by the British nearly 50 years ago, the indigenous exiled population are fighting to keep their dying culture alive
Mauritius, which won independence from the UK in 1968, still maintains the islands are its own.
Rosy Leveque, a third generation Chagossian, is using her activism to fight for the rights of her ancestors But even as a third-generation Chagossian, her desire to return to the Chagos Islands has never wavered. “I feel angry that the misery and disregard towards our rights has been continually ignored throughout the last 50 years,” he tellsPierre Prosper, chairman of the Chagossians Committee in the Seychelles, said it will be difficult to revive a nation that’s been ‘wiped out of existence’
As it stands, when Creole-speaking Chagossians were first illegally deported to the Seychelles, many lived in poverty as plantation workers.
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