Echati Maoulida
{{Short description|Mahorese activist (1935–2019)}}
{{Infobox person
| name =
| birth_name = Echati Maoulida Mwenge
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|03|13}}
| birth_place = Bouéni, Mayotte
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|09|15|1935|03|13}}
| death_place = Bouéni, Mayotte
| citizenship = France
| organization = Chatouilleuses
}}
Echati Maoulida, full name Echati Maoulida Mwenge, was a Mahorese activist who promoted the culture of the department and advocated for its separation from Comoros.{{Cite web |title=Hommage du collectif des citoyen de Mayotte {{!}} L'info KWEZI |url=http://www.linfokwezi.fr/hommage-du-collectif-des-citoyen-de-mayotte/ |access-date=2022-04-04 |language=fr-FR}}
Biography
Maoulida was born in 1935 in the canton of Bouéni on the island of Grand-Terre in Mayotte. In the 1960s and 70s, she was a member of the Chatouilleuses movement, a women's activist group which used tickle torture to coerce politicians into supporting Mayotte's separation from Comoros.{{Cite web |last=Inter |first=France |date=2019-10-21 |title=Qui sont les "Chatouilleuses", ces militantes de Mayotte à qui Emmanuel Macron va rendre hommage ? |url=https://www.franceinter.fr/culture/qui-sont-les-chatouilleuses-ces-militantes-de-mayotte-a-qui-emmanuel-macron-va-rendre-hommage |access-date=2022-04-04 |website=www.franceinter.fr |language=fr}} Additionally, Maoulida campaigned for increased educational opportunities for young boys and girls.{{Cite web |title=Hommage du Collectif des citoyens de Mayotte à Echati Maoulida {{!}} Le Journal De Mayotte |url=https://lejournaldemayotte.yt/2019/09/19/hommage-du-collectif-des-citoyens-de-mayotte-a-echati-maoulida/ |access-date=2022-04-04 |website=lejournaldemayotte.yt}}
As a fundi, or spiritual leader, Maoulida was able to travel all over the island of Mayotte. She began singing in her hometown, learning the political and religious songs known as maulida at a Koranic school. Throughout her life, she visited religious services to sing the memorized songs.{{Cite web |title=Indian Ocean, Mayotte Intangible Heritage |url=https://www.culture.gouv.fr/content/download/195793/file/MusiquesdeMayotte.pdf?inLanguage=fre-FR |access-date=3 April 2022 |website=Ministry of Culture |archive-date=12 April 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20210413004845/https://www.culture.gouv.fr/content/download/195793/file/MusiquesdeMayotte.pdf?inLanguage=fre-FR |url-status=bot: unknown }}
Maoulida died at the age of 84 in 2019. She was the last living member of the Chatouilleuses, with her death causing a call by the Collective of the Citizens of Mayotte to begin efforts to collect oral histories from the island's elders, and to name a new school in her honor.
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