Brown Atlantis Radio Feat. Khal Torabully

Khal Torabully was born in Mauritius. He moved to Lyon in 1976 where he obtained a PhD in the Semiology of Poetics at the University of Lyon II. In 1995, he took an internship at the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) of Paris. He is the author of 25 books of poetry and history, among others. He also directed 5 documentaries and has won various awards. Torabully is the founder of the House of Wisdom of Fez-Granada, which has the recognition of UNESCO. Torabully also contributes to site policies of UNESCO, namely through the Aapravasi Ghat, in Mauritius, and has participated in conferences in many countries. He is a UNESCO expert for the Silk Routes and represented UNESCO in Guadeloupe in 2017, for the centenary commemoration of the official abolition of indenture.

Torabully is a pioneer in indenture studies and theory. He is the designer of the coral imaginary of coolitude, a poetics through which indenture developed into a paradigm of anthropological, cultural and memorial articulations open to otherness. In 2014, with the collaboration of Doudou Diene and the Aapravasi Ghat, he initiated the inscription of the International Indentured Labour Route on the UNESCO agenda, articulating slavery and indenture in its philosophical premises. Coolitude poetics, based on the centrality of the ocean, developed the first inter memorial dialogue with slavery, leading to the creation of the International Indenture Labour Route set up by UNESCO.