For Kanak cultural and political leader Emmanuel Tjibaou, 2024 has been quite the year.On 13 May, after months of peaceful protest, New Caledonia erupted in violence as young people rioted across the capital Noumea and neighbouring towns. Independence supporters soon began a series of protests and clashes with French security forces, which lasted for six months, leaving 14 dead, a shattered economy, and political division.
In June, as French President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections for France’s National Assembly in Paris, Emmanuel Tjibaou was chosen as a candidate for New Caledonia’s independence and nationalist . . .
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