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...Michael Lambek Abstract This article explores the unexpected arrival of new spirits in possession of young spirit mediums at an annual ceremony in Majunga, Madagascar. In it, the author explores the significance of the event for local politics, but also uses it to exemplify a form of historicity...

...Gwyn Campbell Abstract The conventional historical interpretation of the early nineteenth-century history of Madagascar is that it reflected two contrasting reigns, that of King Radama I (r. 1810–28), and that of his successor, Queen Ranavalona I (r. 1828–61). The dominant view of Radama is that he...

...Pier M. Larson Abstract Born on Ile de France in late 1799 to a French father and a free mixed-race mother from Fort-Dauphin in southeast Madagascar, Aristide Corroller gained an education at Port-Louis but departed to pursue a political career in Madagascar after 1815. Corroller first assisted his...

... . Communicating by email, the two discussed Gwyn Campbell's latest book, The Madagascar Youths: British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Africa Institute 2024 Madagascar...

... during the first half of the nineteenth century. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Africa Institute 2024 Mauritius slave trading Seychelles Madagascar East Africa On December 19, 1834, Lafleur, identified as a twenty-six-year-old “Mozambique” man, lodged a complaint...

... of origin, Madagascar, and her family background shape her artistic expression and her place in the world. Malala Andrialavidrazana is a visual artist who was born and raised in Madagascar before settling in Paris at the age of twelve. A graduate of the National Architecture School of Paris-La Villette...

... to acknowledge the globality of slave trading by highlighting that millions of enslaved men, women, and children from eastern Africa, Madagascar, India, the Indonesian archipelago, and East Asia were transported throughout and beyond the Indian Ocean and maritime Asian worlds to the Americas, East and South...

... of vanilla, previously a monopoly of Spanish colonial America, as another new cash crop to the French island-colony of Bourbon (now Réunion) and its subsequent introduction to the Seychelles, Madagascar, and Indonesia. What interests me in this paper is both the history of how Indigenous control of these two...

... A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson (a possible pseudonym for Daniel Defoe), in which the utopic settlement of Libertalia is established by the fictional character Captain Misson in the island of Madagascar. Bayjoo explores three main strands within this series: Madagascar's...

... and backgrounds were recorded by Elton, who was present on their arrival. When intercepted, the slaves had been on a dhow en route to Madagascar; they were “Makuas and Maganja” with clear cultural distinctions, some of them speaking “indifferent Portuguese,” and, according to Elton, they had been captured “from...

... keynote to the conference. The last item in this issue involves two distinguished Indian Ocean historians, Eric Jennings and Gwyn Campbell, in a Q and A interview that begins by asking Campbell about his recent book The Madagascar Youths , a fascinating microhistory that connects Madagascar, Great...

... Maurice et de ses Dépendences. Suivie d'une Notice Historique sur cette Colonie et d'un Essai sur l’île de Madagascar . Paris , 1838 . Elkins Caroline . Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire . New York : Knopf , 2022 . Eriksen Thomas Hylland . Common Denominators...

... of the Indian Ocean world.” 9 Later publications on the Sakalava raids from Madagascar onto coastal East Africa (1977) and the kitimiri spirit possession cult among women in Zanzibar (1984) similarly document my recognition of the historical play of larger Indian Ocean factors. 10 At this point, my...

... coast of India, Mozambique, Madagascar, and Zanzibar. As the urban economy in Cape Town was significantly more varied than the rural districts, city slaves performed a wide variety of functions and were probably able to claim a greater range of freedoms. Slaves labored in taverns, hostels, brothels...

... esclaves” (the means of purchasing slaves) in Madagascar. 19 These connections are presented, on the one hand, as positive economic opportunities that could facilitate Paul and Virginie's union by providing them with the essential wealth they are lacking in order to start a family, and without which...

... a strategically favorable position lying right in the middle of the route between the Cape and the VOC's Indian possessions. This route passed Madagascar not on the inner route through the Mozambique Channel but east of the island, on a route leading through the open sea to India. However, Dutch attempts...

.... The palace comes into view as a cosmopolitan space whose residents hailed from diverse regions of the world including Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Central Asia, Madagascar, Central and East Africa, the Horn of Africa, Turkey, the islands of the Indian Ocean, Oman, and Persia, 31 and where one hears a “Babel...

.... Then, he would go to Hadramout, Mukalla, and maybe have a wife there, but quite often in Djibouti, and have a second home there. And then the third one may be in Barawa, or Zanzibar, even as far as Madagascar. The same captain can have four wives. And he may have in different places, and, in all...