Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Arbiters and Witnesses of Change: Contextualizing Conversations on African Islands

pp 1-36

Part 1 - Atlantic Ocean Islands

pp 37-38

1 - The Canaries to Africa: The Atlantic Strategy of “To Be or Not to Be”

pp 39-67

2 - Sugar, Cocoa, and Oil: Economic Success and Failure in São Tomé and Príncipe from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

pp 68-95

3 - The Bijagos of Canhabac Island (Guinea-Bissau)

pp 96-124

4 - An Island in the Middle of Everywhere: Bioko under Colonial Domination

pp 125-156

5 - Cursing in Bioko and Annobón: Repeating Islands that Don't Repeat

pp 157-169

6 - African Ports and Islands during the Second World War

pp 170-207

7 - “Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi”: Postcolonial Language Planning and Promotion in Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora

pp 208-242

Part 2 - Indian Ocean Islands

pp 243-244

8 - Africa's Indian Ocean Islands, Near and Distant

pp 245-266

9 - Monsoon Metropolis: Migration, Mobility, and Mediation in the Western Indian Ocean

pp 267-293

10 - The Mascarenes, Indian Ocean Africa, and Global Labor Migration during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

pp 294-316

11 - The Island as Nexus: Zanzibar in the Nineteenth Century

pp 317-344

12 - Slavery and Postslavery in Madagascar: An Overview

pp 345-369

13 - The Comoros: Strategies of Islandness in the Indian Ocean

pp 370-396

14 - Gendered Pioneers from Mayotte: An Ethnographic Perspective on Travel and Transformation in the Western Indian Ocean

pp 397-416

Notes on Contributors

pp 417-422

Index

pp 423-432