Croquemort: A biographical journey in the context of Chad

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January 2015, N’Djaména. Didier Lalaye alias Croquemort is writing his slam in a bar close to the Preston studio, which produced his last CD, Apprenons à les comprendre. The song Prisonnier speaks about how we are all our own prison, how we make our own borders. It is too easy to […]

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The Dawa Mobile-Health project After he went to Pala, capital of the Mayo-Dallah department in south-western Chad, to give a concert in 2013, Didier/Croquemort discovered his ‘home’ region anew and was shocked by its poverty and need for development. Being a medical doctor, he recognized the high child mortality caused […]

Medicine and entrepreneurship

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>> Read the full biography Didier and Croquemort have a deep feeling for justice, in contrast to injustice—and especially to a particular aspect of injustice: betrayal (trahison). Trahison is a word that comes up regularly in our discussions. In a society where daily life has to deal with oppression and constant […]

Justice?

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Didier Lalaye, alias Croquemort, is an engaged slam artist from Chad. He is also a medical doctor in Chad and a PhD student at the University of Utrecht. Didier does not spend his life in one place but is often on the move. In recent years he has been living […]

Didier Lalaye, alias Croquemort

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Reflections of Mirjam Didier Lalaye and I have now, in November 2016, reached the conclusion of an ever-continuing anthropological journey—a journey which started purely by chance. I quote Didier: ‘You know, we could just as well not have met. When you called at the beginning of March 2014, I did […]

Nomadic minds

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