Two books by writers from the Seychelles, set there, that give a real sense of the place: Seychelles Global Citizen: The Autobiography of James R. Mancham and Paradise Raped: Life, Love and Power in the Seychelles.
Very few books by Seychellois writers are available in English, so readers mostly meet the islands through the memoirs of their first president. Seychellois Creole, French and English are all official languages, and writers work in each, but little of that has been translated or published abroad.
James R. Mancham led Seychelles to independence from Britain in 1976 and was overthrown in a coup a year later while abroad. He wrote Paradise Raped in exile in London, a vivid account of his rise and the coup, written while it was still raw. Seychelles Global Citizen, his later autobiography, tells the fuller story: the push for independence, the tourism-led society he championed, his years in exile and his return when multi-party politics came back in the 1990s.
Memoir by the first president, covering colonial-era Seychelles, the push for independence, the 1977 coup and the tourism-led island society.
Seychelles' first president recounts colonial-era politics, independence in 1976, the 1977 coup and the René years, with insight into Creole society and tourism.
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