Mackensie Shaw Ovard

Mrs. Wallace

GEOG 1700

04 May 2020

Annotated Bibliography

Mauritius Island, off the southeast of Africa in the Indian ocean

News Article:

Kasseeah, Harshana. “How Mauritius' Outward-Focused Economy Survived Previous Shocks.”

The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2020, theconversation.com/how-mauritius-outward-focused-

economy-survived-previous-shocks-135951.

This article gives information and statistics on how Mauritius island is trying to sustain economy

growth during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The island Mauritius is located off the country

of Africa in the Indian ocean. The island’s main industries are tourism, business processing and

financial services and they rely on costumers globally. In 2018 most of the exports from this

island were fish, clothing and sugar as 85% of the island is cultivated land of sugarcane. During

this global pandemic many countries have suspended travel which effects the island’s tourism

industry. Another concern during the pandemic is food shortages on the island because of a

previous food and financial crisis in 2007.

This article will be helpful for my research because it gives statistics from different years

regarding the different industries on Mauritius island. It mentions their exports for the goods

produced on the island and major countries such as Europe and Madagascar. It also helps explain
the difficulties small islands face with different shocks throughout the world. Many islands rely

greatly on tourism and the current pandemic and future pandemics can influence Mauritius’

economy.

Academic Journal:

Gitnajali, Pyndiah. “Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius islands: Creative practices

in Mauritian Creole.” Island Studies Journal. 2016, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p485-504. 20p.

This academic journal gives information about how people on Mauritius Island got their native

language of Creole. Around 70% of the Mauritians on the island speak the Creole language. The

island of Mauritius was inhabited before Europeans started to scale the Indian ocean and the

island has a history of 330 years of slavery. It became an island for sugar plantations and was

made up of plantation owners, worker and slaves. Because of sugar production Mauritius island

had French and British colonization which resulted in a mix with French, Indian and African

languages. The creole language reflects years of inferiority because native languages were

portrayed as wicked and the English language was superior.

This article will be helpful in understanding the languages and cultures that are present on the

Mauritius Island. It also provides statistics on how much migration has taken place on the island

from French and British colonization. The article’s purpose is to give reliable information about

the amount of racial discrimination that has taken place on the island of Mauritius.

Book:

Vaughan, Megan. Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Duke

University Press, 2005.

This book written about the island of Mauritius give information and facts about how Mauritius

island was discovered and the different cultures that have resulted because of migration. The

book provides a lot of history on the island, trade relations, colonialism, and the process of

cultural creolization. The book describes the impact of the French revolution on the Mauritius

island and how the island became controlled by France in the 18th and early 19th century. The

book has researched information about the history of slavery on the island as well as the

complicated languages, and social relations. The book has facts about slave trade was a big part

of the Mauritius island and many others because of the production of sugar.

This book will be helpful in my research of the Mauritius island because it gives history of the

Mauritius island. The history of the island is important to learn about the different cultures and

languages of the island. The book also provides a lot information about the slave trade and how

the Mauritius Island was heavily involved. It also explains of how the island became and large

tourist attraction for people all around the world.