Title: African islands and enclaves /
Authors: Cohen, Robin, 1944-
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1983
Subjects: States, Small.; Islands Africa.; Africa Dependency on foreign countries.; Africa Colonial influence.; Africa Economic conditions; Africa Politics and government
Abstract: As history has shown, remote islands or small states can be flashpoints for international crises. This collection of commissioned essays examines African countries that, because of their seeming insignificance, have been passed over in recent scholarship. The essays focus on current political and economic issues. Why do such states find it difficult to sustain stable economic and political orders? The role of such countries in international trade; the effects of their small size, remoteness, or paucity of resources; and their use as military bases for other powers are among the subjects discussed.--Publisher description.
Contents: Introduction / Robin Cohen -- Interpreting dependency in the Canary Islands / Miguel Sanchez-Padron -- From colonialism to confederation / Arnold Hughes -- The structure of terror in a small state / Ibrahim K. Sundiata -- Cabinda, the politics of oil in Angola's enclave / Daniel Dos Santos -- St. Helena, welfare colonialism in practice / Robin Cohen -- Cape Verde, survival without self-sufficiency / Deidre Meintel Machado -- Diego Garcia, the militarisation of an Indian Ocean island / Joneed Khan -- Prospering at the periphery / Raphael Kaplinsky -- Les survivances coloniales aux Comoros / Percy Claude Gaspart -- Mauritius, the Meade Report twenty years after / Percy Selwyn.