1st Edition
René and Postcolonial Seychelles An African Chameleon in the Indian Ocean
List of images
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations used in the text
Introduction
1 Prelude to the Seychelles of René
2 Conceived in isolation
3 Less than innocent abroad
4 London and the bank
5 Towards Seychelles independence
6 The coalition and the republic
7 The coup
8 Assembling the apparatus of oppression
9 The campaign against the opposition
10 Death in London
11 Developing the new state
12 Strange friends in New York, Rome and Rwanda
13 Perplexed friends and unfussed enemies in the Cold War
14 1989 and all that
15 The new economy
16 Mastering democracy
17 Leaving on his own terms
18 The character of René
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ashton Robinson is Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
