The signs are easy to miss. A hand-painted marker with an arrow indicates a dirt road leading simply to “the mountain.” A short drive up the road, a plaque set low to the ground marks a banyan tree ...

Traditional Mauritian Sega is a performing art emblematic of the Creole community. Each solo singer improvises lyrics, while a frame drum, box rattle and triangle keep time and produce the rhythmic ...

Sega Tambour Chagos is one of the types of Sega music of Mauritius, originating in the Chagos Archipelago. Like other Segas, it is a music born of slavery, and is sung in Chagossian Creole. It is a ...

Stephen Graham of 'Adolescence' says research took its co-writer down 'a lot of dark holes' ...

La Nikita, a Mauritian Sega singer-songwriter, actively uses her voice, songs, and media presence to preserve and popularize the typical Mauritian island sound, sung in Creole, for the younger ...