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... as an outsider. MA: I know that people from Réunion Island have a different perception of slavery to people from Madagascar, for example. We were colonized, but people from the Hauts-Plateaux say that they have never been slaves, and they are not entirely wrong. It was the Javanese who came to Madagascar...

... to mix labor with land to generate wealth through agriculture instead. John Locke's labor theory of value, which Karl Marx picked up unwittingly, was essentially an argument that wealth was legitimately created by colonizers who added value to God-given but unimproved land. That value was created through...

... to painting and photographs, and uses archive materials that bridge gaps between dominant narratives of colonization and hidden histories. The series includes artworks and archive materials displayed in luxuriant frames, magnificent wall cabinets, and an imposing wooden vitrine, alluding to the influence...

... when her novel is set. If Paul et Virginie is a text that, according to Chris Bongie, “grapple[s] with the global dissemination of a colonizing modernity” and “registers the various disfigurements” as well as the “redemptive grafting of diverse peoples and cultures onto one another . . . that ensue...

... five-hundred-year-long period of Portuguese colonization, which is conventionally considered to start in 1498 with the arrival of Vasco da Gama on the northern coast of Mozambique, while en route to India. 8 By 1507, a permanent Portuguese presence was established in Ilha de Moçambique in the north...

... together in a protracted and violent insurrection against colonial rule. 35 Only in the crucible of rebellion could a united, sovereign, and new people be forged, willing to cast off old beliefs and prejudices. He wrote that “the youth of a colonized country, growing up in an atmosphere of shot...

... and historiographical frontiers in African, Arabian, and Indian Ocean history. Omani polymaths, like Nāṣir b. Abī Nabhān, played a crucial role in the production of knowledge during the Omani colonization of East Africa. Through observation and engagement with local surroundings, they authored manuals encompassing...

... Voyages of Discovery, and European colonization. Since the late 1970s, scholars such as Kirti Chaudhuri, Andre Gunder Frank, and Michael Pearson have challenged conventional perspectives, opening the way for others to explore more holistic temporal and spatial paradigms, and the historical influence...

... to be no more than a hub. 29 Trying to build a colony there, they had no other objective than to make it into a convenient stopover place for VOC ships on their way from the Cape to India and Indonesia. However, the Dutch had to realize that colonizing an island was not that easy and that any damage done...

... complete . Port Louis, Mauritius : Pampelmousses , 2008 . Hall Catherine . Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. A Reader . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2000 . Hall Stuart . “ Cultural Identity and Diaspora...

... Arab oppressors of an African majority. The traditional narrative of the revolution was that it was a social uprising against an oligarchy of wealthy land-owning Arabs that had colonized the islands were attempting to dominate its politics after independence. After the April 1964 Union of Zanzibar...

... above according to the whims of colonial administrators and anthropologists. It is critical to recognize the agency of colonized subjects, however circumscribed, in breathing life into abstract juridical notions of “culture” and “community” in dusty government files. Those who became “tribes...

... the shore, the ocean, and the island from a perspective grounded in an Indian Ocean imaginary as the lens through which to understand the world. He queers the colonial gaze in which the colonized were viewed through a singular hegemonic Eurocentric lens by generating his own non-hegemonic Indian Ocean...

... in 1769, just before the abrogation of the Compagnie's trade monopoly. He served briefly as a different sort of butcher—as “Chirurgien major” (chief surgeon)—in the ranks of a second abortive French colonizing expedition to the Big Island by the Comte de Maudave (1768–71). 9 After the prompt...

..., especially when we encounter the essentialized narrative of the 1964 Revolution as an “African response” to Omani colonization. 15 The complexity of Zanzibar's social formations was best captured by an interlocutor who stated, “Neither all Africans were murderers and nor all Omanis dropped anchor...

... value outside of the normal processes of capitalist production. In this indispensable scholarship, the home, the agrarian hinterland, and the colonized/postcolonial world are preserved as spaces outside of capitalist mode of production but within the sphere of capital's ability to circulate...

... breathless sentence stretched out into a novel—there is not a single full stop in the entire work. It is thus exclusively through line breaks, commas, and semi-colons that Zamir modulates Anguille's storytelling. Long sentences are also a fixture of Devi's style, and yet they acquire renewed significance...

... are challenged and explores the resistant role Lalela uLwandle played in this process. Meg Samuelson and Charne Lavery define the oceanic South as a category that encompasses the decolonized and still colonized landmasses of the South, including Indigenous Oceania and the frozen continent of Antarctica. 9...

... convinced that the British wished to make Madagascar at best a satellite power, at worst a colony. In 1817 Robert Farquhar, governor of Mauritius from 1810 to 1823, clearly indicated his wish to colonize Madagascar with Mauritian settlers. Following the 1820 Britanno-Merina treaty, Europeans in Madagascar...

..., but then came under Omani protection, paying taxes to Sultan, based in Zanzibar. Then in 1895, when the British began to colonize Africa, they made an agreement with the Sultan of Zanzibar whereby the entire coast became a Protectorate of the British. This agreement was to last only fifty years...