| Contents |
Introduction : charted routes and new directions in the study of Africa's maritime history / Carine E. Ray and Jeremy Rich -- Austronesian mariners and early trans-Indian Ocean crossings / Gwyn Campbell -- Eight hens per man per day : shipwreck survivors and pastoral abundance in southern Africa / Margaret Hanzimanolis -- State control and regulation of commerce on the waterways and coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800 / Ousmane Traoré -- Swimming, surfing and underwater diving in early modern Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora / Kevin Dawson -- Rough sailing : risks and opportunities for immigrant African maritime workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914 / Jeremy Rich -- Desertion, dereliction and destitution : the travails of stranded West Afican seamen in the United Kingdon, ca. 1921-1934 / Ayodeji Olukoju -- 'The white wife problem' : sex, race and the contested politics of repatriation to interwar British West Africa / Carina E. Ray -- Sailing beyond apartheid : the social and political impact of seafaring on coloured South African sailors / Henry Trotter. |
