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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Arbiters and Witnesses of Change 1
4. Part 1: Atlantic Ocean Islands
5. 1 The Canaries to Africa: The Atlantic Strategy of “To Be or Not to Be” 39
6. 2 Sugar, Cocoa, and Oil: Economic Success and Failure in São Tomé and Príncipe from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 68
7. 3 The Bijagos of Canhabac Island (Guinea-Bissau) 96
8. 4 An Island in the Middle of Everywhere: Bioko under Colonial Domination 125
9. 5 Cursing in Bioko and Annobón: Repeating Islands that Don’t Repeat 157
10. 6 African Ports and Islands during the Second World War 170
11. 7 “Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi”: Postcolonial Language Planning and Promotion in Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora 208
12. Part 2: Indian Ocean Islands
13. 8 Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands, Near and Distant 245
14. 9 Monsoon Metropolis: Migration, Mobility, and Mediation in the Western Indian Ocean 267
15. 10 The Mascarenes, Indian Ocean Africa, and Global Labor Migration during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 294
16. 11 The Island as Nexus: Zanzibar in the Nineteenth Century 317
17. 12 Slavery and Postslavery in Madagascar: An Overview 345
18. 13 The Comoros: Strategies of Islandness in the Indian Ocean 370
19. 14 Gendered Pioneers from Mayotte: An Ethnographic Perspective on Travel and Transformation in the Western Indian Ocean 397
20. Notes on Contributors 417
21. Index 423