The Present Stakes of the Debate over Memory and Reparations for Slavery in Mauritius. – In the plural context of Mauritius, the debates over memory and reparation for slavery are unfolding against a backdrop of “malaise créole”, itself the result of a perception of marginalization and exclusion of the creole community from the fruits of economic development. The emergence of the discourse of “malaise créole” is closely associated with an attempt of the creole community, catholic in its great majority, to forge a new ethnic identity within a highly ethnicised system for the purpose of socio-political mobilization. The creole community has thus reconstructed itself by reappropriating its slave past and around the commemoration of the abolition of slavery on 1^st February of each year in order to fight for a program of cultural, economic and social empowerment. The state and church hierarchy have since taken measures to satisfy most of the cultural demands of the creole community. However, its demand for economic reparation, albeit monetary compensation for each descendant of slave, have raised controversies and major objections in a society that have been constructed by slaves as well as Indian indentured laborers. Yet, the tragic event of February 1999 have revealed to each and every one the urgent need to forge a new solidarity among state, private sector and civil society at large in the struggle against the exclusion of vulnerable groups in an era of globalisation.