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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This came to me  a few days after having visited the island of Réunion, a French département d&#039;Outre-Mer in the Indian Ocean. Réunion is like Martinique and Guadeloupe, but also a bit different in terms of its history. Most of the information can be found by googling La Maison des Civilisations et de l&#039;unité Réunionaise (MCUR).  In the brochure I was given, the following words (by Paul Vergès, President of Réunion Island Regional Council, in 2007) capture in broad strokes what it is about  In 2010 Réunion island will step into the 21st century by opening a unique place, the MCUR. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://otabenga.org/node/119&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;read&amp;nbsp;more&amp;nbsp;&amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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