Smoke Signals: "Vous Allez-vous" A poem by Franck Amani & Sylvie Baziga.

Smoke Signals: "Vous Allez-vous" A poem by Franck Amani & Sylvie Baziga.

What happens when poetry becomes testimony? What happens when a voice carries the grief, rage, memory, and survival of an entire people?

In this deeply emotional and politically charged episode of Troublemakers, we journey through “Vous allez où?”, a haunting spoken-word piece that confronts war, displacement, colonial violence, exile, and the persistence of hope in places the world often chooses to ignore.

Through vivid imagery and painful truths, the poem paints a world where mothers bury children, rivers carry bodies instead of songs, and children draw rifles instead of suns. Yet even within devastation, there remains resistance the stubborn insistence on dignity, memory, and life itself.

This episode reflects on:

  • War as a lived daily reality, not a distant headline
  • Forced displacement and the psychology of exile
  • The silencing of oppressed voices
  • Colonial legacies and systems of domination

At its core, this episode asks: Where do people go when home itself becomes unlivable? And what does it mean to continue dreaming in a world built to erase you?

This is not just poetry. It is testimony. It is mourning. It is resistance.

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