Faith and Culture

I am a Creole of African descent. My ancestors came to Mauritius as slaves to the French settlers in the early 18th century, either from Mozambique, Madagascar or Senegal. They worked on large sugar cane plantations and sugar mill belonging to those settlers. Slaves of the same tribe were scattered over different plantations on the island to prevent communication and revolt. Slaves on a particular plantation had to imitate their master's language, i.e. French, to communicate, thus developing a patois language called Creole....