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THE SEYCHELLES Unquiet Islands Marcus Franda profiles / Nations of Contemporary Africa HELLES ■slands Franda Consistiw|||^^^ named islands in the middle (4pi|»dian Ocean and sup¬ porting of just over 60,000, the Republic of the Seychelles is a small but increasingly important nation that has been forced to adapt to an ac¬ celerating pace of change in the 1970s and 1980s. Completely uninhabited un¬ til 200 years ago-and then only sparsely populated by ex-slaves and European adventurers - the islands sud¬ denly were opened to major outside in¬ fluences with the construction of a U.S. satellite tracking station there in the 1960s and an international airport in 1971. A massive boom in international tourism has since proceeded, as have conflicts over conservation, fishii^g rights, and oil exploration. Strategic and commercial factors have stimulated the interests of the Soviet Union, China, France, India, Tanzania, Kenya, the United States, and other nations. In this interpretive profile of the Re- ipuiblic, Dr. Frarida traces the historical background of the Seychelles from their first settlements through independence from Britain in 1976 and the tumultuous events of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Focusing on the key issues of environ¬ ment, societal and race relations, economic and strategic forces, and domestic and international politics, he attempts throughout the book to under¬ stand the turbulence and change of the past few years in the context of both development literature and Indian Ocean politics. ! s S c Library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.0rg/details/seychellesunquieOOOOfran THE SEYCHELLES PROFILES • NATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA Larry W. Bowman, Series Editor The Seychelles: Unquiet Islands, Marcus Franda Tanzania: An African Experiment, Rodger Yeager Kenya, Norman N. Miller Uganda, Jeanne Marie Col Cameroon, Mark W. Delancey Nigeria, Timothy M. Shaw and Orobola Fasehun Niger, Robert B. Charlick and James T. Thomson Ivory Coast, Barbara C. Lewis Senegal, Sheldon Cellar Swaziland, Alan Booth Mozambique, Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman The Comoro Islands, Malyn Newitt Also of Interest Nigeria in Search of a Stable Civil-Military System, J. 'Bayo Adekson ^ THE SEYCHELLES Unquiet Islands Marcus Franda Westview Press • Boulder, Colorado Gower • Hampshire, England Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any in¬ formation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright ® 1982 by Westview Press, Inc. Published in 1982 in the United States of America by Westview Press, Inc. 5500 Central Avenue Boulder, Colorado 80301 Frederick A. Praeger, President and Publisher Published in 1982 in Great Britain by Gower Publishing Company, Ltd. Gower House Croft Road Aldershot, Hants., GUll 3HR Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 82-1979 ISBN (U.S.) 0-86531-266-4 ISBN (U.K.) 0-566-00552-2 Printed and bound in the United States of America
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