Thanks to his perseverance, his atypical, sometimes figurative and sometimes impressionistic and abstract, but always lyrical art, the son became a pillar of Djiboutian arts.
The Djiboutian government has especially focused on developing and improving institutional infrastructure and teaching materials, including constructing new classrooms and supplying textbooks.
Independence day celebrations have taken on livelier forms, with shops decorating their windows in the blue, green, white and the red star of the Djiboutian flag.