Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: Arbiters and witnesses of change--contextualizing conversations on African islands / Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez -- 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 sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries / 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 -- 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 postslavery 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.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Introduction , Chapter 1. Pan African theory's impact on the development of Afrocentric education in Jamaica , Chapter 2. "Africa, the land of our fathers": the emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the nineteenth century , Chapter 3. Liberia after creation: whither the pan-Africanist dream , Chapter 4. Pan-Africanism and slave rebellions: the interconnections , Part 2. Pan-African citizenship, identity and entitlements: the place of pan-Africanism in reverse diaspora migrations ; Chapter 5. The global implications of pan Africanism and the establishment of "new communities" in Africa: the case of Victoria in southwest Cameroon , Chapter 6. "Performance" in trans-Atlantic communities in Africa: the case of Brazilian-Africans and American-Africans in Ghana , Chapter 7. Mobilizing the African diaspora for development: the politics of dual citizenship in Ghana , Chapter 8. Citizens and strangers in the virgin forest together?: migrations and cross-cultural encounters in the oral histories of Sefwi Debiso community of western Ghana , Part 3. Re-evaluating pan-Africanism, the challenges in the past and the way forward ; Chapter 9. Nationality and the pan-African state , Chapter 10. Critical departures in the practice of pan-Africanism in the new millennium , Chapter 11. Pan-Africanism and the place of Africa in contemporary world power politics , Chapter 12. The spirit of pan-Africanism and nationalist consciousness: the way forward in the 21st century , Chapter 13. Pan-Africanism in world politics: the geopolitics of the pan-African movement, 1900-2000 , Part 1. Historicizing pan-Africanism and the contradictions ; Chapter 1. Pan African theory's impact on the development of Afrocentric education in Jamaica , Chapter 2. "Africa, the land of our fathers": the emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the nineteenth century , Chapter 3. Liberia after creation: whither the pan-Africanist dream , Chapter 4. Pan-Africanism and slave rebellions: the interconnections , Part 2. Pan-African citizenship, identity and entitlements: the place of pan-Africanism in reverse diaspora migrations ; Chapter 5. The global implications of pan Africanism and the establishment of "new communities" in Africa: the case of Victoria in southwest Cameroon , Chapter 6. "Performance" in trans-Atlantic communities in Africa: the case of Brazilian-Africans and American-Africans in Ghana , Chapter 7. Mobilizing the African diaspora for development: the politics of dual citizenship in Ghana , Chapter 8. Citizens and strangers in the virgin forest together?: migrations and cross-cultural encounters in the oral histories of Sefwi Debiso community of western Ghana , Part 3. Re-evaluating pan-Africanism, the challenges in the past and the way forward ; Chapter 9. Nationality and the pan-African state , Chapter 10. Critical departures in the practice of pan-Africanism in the new millennium , Chapter 11. Pan-Africanism and the place of Africa in contemporary world power politics , Chapter 12. The spirit of pan-Africanism and nationalist consciousness: the way forward in the 21st century , Chapter 13. Pan-Africanism in world politics: the geopolitics of the pan-African movement, 1900-2000