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Seychelles Moutya Night in La Digue/Praslin
An evening event said to celebrate moutya, a traditional Seychellois drum-and-dance form with direct roots in the music of enslaved African plantation workers, held across La Digue and Praslin. A specific, independently verifiable event under this exact name could not be confirmed during this session's research, though moutya itself is a well-documented and significant Seychellois cultural form.
Moutya developed among enslaved Africans brought to Seychelles under French colonial rule, who used the drum-and-dance form -- built around a goatskin tam-tam drum heated over fire to tighten its skin and sharpen its tone -- as one of the few culturally autonomous spaces available to them, performed at night, often on beaches, away from direct plantation oversight.