Mauritius
island sovereign state off of East Africa in the Indian Ocean
Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. It had an estimated population of 1,265,475 in 2019.
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- Mauritius is a very small island, a rock cast out in the vast ocean, so that when one begins to find oneself, one is inevitably overcome by a feeling of constriction, both way, the branches draw your eyes outward and away, beyond the outermost leaves. This constant toing-and-froing of the eye conditions what many call the soul but for which I have no name. No matter, everything overflows and reaches out..."
- Mauritian poet Edouard J. Maunick (1931-2021), quoted in Edouard J. Maunick talks to Jasmina Sopova, UNESDOC digital library, 1994
