African Islands – Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez

Introduction - Toyin Falola and R. Joseph Parrott and Danielle Porter Sanchez PART 1. ATLANTIC OCEAN ISLANDS The Canaries to Africa: The Atlantic Strategy of "To Be or Not To Be" - Germán Santana Pérez Sugar, Cocoa, and Oil: Economic Success and Failure in São Tomé and Príncipe from the 16th to the 21st Century - Gerhard Seibert The Bijagos of Canhabac Island (Guinea-Bissau) - Joshua Bernard Forrest An Island in the Middle of Everywhere: Bioko under Colonial Domination - Enrique N. Okenve Cursing in Bioko and Annobón: Repeating Islands that Don't Repeat - Michael Ugarte African Ports and Islands during the Second World War - Ashley Jackson "Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi": Postcolonial Language Planning and Promotion in Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora - Carla D. Martin PART 2. INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS Africa's Indian Ocean Islands, Near and Distant - Edward A. Alpers Monsoon Metropolis: Migration, Mobility, and Mediation in the Western Indian Ocean - William Bissell The Mascarenes, Indian Ocean Africa, and Global Labor Migration during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Richard B. Allen The Island as Nexus: Zanzibar in the Nineteenth Century - Jeremy Prestholdt Slavery and Post-Slavery in Madagascar: An Overview - Denis Regnier and Dominique Somda The Comoros: Strategies of Islandness in the Indian Ocean - Iain Walker Gendered Pioneers from Mayotte: An Ethnographic Perspective on Travel and Transformation in the Western Indian Ocean - Michael Lambek Notes on Contributors